I made a mistake on my SOP...does this matter?

Graduate School
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<p>I recently turned in my graduate applications and I made a few mistake. It seems trivial but...I messed up on some school names.</p>

<p>For instance, I put "University of California at Berkeley" and abbreviated it as UCB. I recently read that they discourage both of those names on Wikipedia...will admissions people care?</p>

<p>I also abbreviated Georgia Tech as Gtech instead of Gatech...for another application.</p>

<p>Should I call the admissions offices and see if I can do anything about it since the deadlines haven't passed? Or am I just freaking out. </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>doesn’t matter. i call Berkeley MIT and still got in with funding.</p>

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<p>Just curious freezingbum, why don’t they prefer to use those names?</p>

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<p>well I always thought the comma was an abbreviation for “at”, and I thought it looked/sounded better if you wrote out the entire name. </p>

<p>I referred to Berkeley as UCB because I thought “Berkeley” was an unofficial name. All the other UCs are abbreviated that way like UCLA. I thought it would be like calling UCLA “Los Angeles” but I guess not.</p>

<p>And for georgia tech, i didn’t know it was gatech, i just put gtech instead of writing out georgia tech since they limited the number of characters on their app.</p>

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<p>oh I missread your question. I copied this from wikipedia.</p>

<p>Unlike most University of California campuses, which are commonly known by their initials, usage of UCB is discouraged (as is University of California at Berkeley), and the domain name is berkeley.edu. While ucb.edu and ucberkeley.edu are also registered by the school, they are not actively used.</p>

<p>I do not really know why.</p>

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<p>berkeley also has another “famous” domain name in relation to its rival…=).</p>