<p>I applied to CALS and for the second major essay I put the blood perpetrates instead of permeates from the body. The spell check changed the word( i might have spelled it wrong and spell check changed permeates to perpetrates. ) What can I do? Call and tell them to change it for me?</p>
<p>I doubt one word will hurt you that much . . . if at all
I'm sure they'll overlook spelling/grammar mistakes if the content is there</p>
<p>cry about it like I did or be a man and suck it up</p>
<p>maybe they'll get a good laugh out of it</p>
<p>and then realize it's a mistake</p>
<p>I don't understand why people aren't more careful with applications that determine where the next four years of their lives will be spent, though.</p>
<p>lol, firey pit of rejection</p>
<p>haha, yes, that too</p>
<p>YES, FIREY PIT OF REJECTION!!!!!</p>
<p>um, yeah I agree with both thing spanks said. First off, people make so many mistakes in their applications. It just doesn't make sense. These apps are sending you to college...they're kind of important. One would think that applicants would take the time to proofread their final-final copy and get it read by someone else as well. One would think that applicants would make sure they send things to the right address. One would think applicants wouldn't wait until the due date to mail in/submit their application. But no, dozens of the best HS seniors make these mistakes on CC alone.</p>
<p>I also agree with spanks in thinking that one typo does not outweigh 4 years of hard work in HS and a lifetime of developing one's interests. :)</p>
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<p>But ... whatever the source, it's a diction error not a typo. To this former editor, it looks like you don't know what the words <em>mean</em>, not that you made a spelling mistake. I have no idea how an admissions rep will react to an error like that, but as an editor the impression is not good. </p>
<p>If the essay said <em>premeates</em> instead of <em>permeates</em> I would understand it as a typo -- but a completely different word is a diction error, even if it's a <em>spell-checker</em> error.</p>
<p>I'm more curious about your original intentions than the spelling error. What in the world was this essay about that it contained the phrase "the blood permeates from the body"? Secondly, permeate means "to spread throughout or pervade", so your use of the word "from" following it is interesting. Were you trying to describe massive blood loss? If so, why?</p>
<p>i believe it's "fiery" pit of rejection</p>
<p>and if permeate and perpetrate is bad... what about adverse and averse? (not me, someone i know)</p>
<p>Does anyone know if MIT got renamed to MMIT this year?</p>
<p>Well, this is the Cornell board. Disregarding that: what does MMIT stand for?</p>
<p>I think he meant he made a typo on the MIT essay</p>
<p>ha, dur...</p>
<p>I read my essay so many times, fowards and backwards just to make sure there was nothing wrong with it, lol.</p>
<p>yeah exactly...that's why I find these silly errors so unnecessary. Typos and errors on CC are rampant because people are typing spur of the moment, train of thought ideas with no proofreading and no spellcheck. But when you write an essay for class you read it over once or twice. And when you do an application to a job or a college, an appliaction that determines the course of the next four years of your life, I'd expect people to be exceedingly careful, with multiple proofreaders and editors.</p>
<p>perro: yeah i was wondering about that interesting usage of "permeates from the body, too, but I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt, lol. Perhaps the sentence will be so garbled now that the adcom won't be able to figure it out, chalk it up as a typo, and the OP won't look crazy anymore. Unless he really was talking about massive blood-loss. hahaha</p>
<p>Well, it's hard for me to relate, as I spent countless hours editing and revising as Spanks and Sparticus did. I mean, these essays mean kind of a lot, and screwing them up shows lack of care on your part.</p>
<p>On a lighter note, it probably won't make the difference between being accepted and rejected. Also, there's nothing you can do about it now, so stop worrying, that gets you nowhere.</p>
<p>its a small mistake quit giving him sh1t</p>
<p>and since these people, who really have no exact idea how the admission committee works as do the rest of us, are speculating, i will too: i think its fine.</p>
<p>I agree this is not a big error. Don't worry excessively. At least they will know that you didn't have professional help in writing your essay.</p>
<p>Adcoms know you guys are kids. Everyone makes mistakes. They'll look at your whole application when making their decision. If the rest of the essay reads well with no errors, they won't hold one mistake against you.</p>
<p>jackhammersmit; we aren't giving him a hard time for the mistake, we're giving him, and the rest of the college-applying world, a hard time for not editing enough. Mistakes like these shouldn't happen in a 500 word or 250 word essay; maybe once in a while, but CC has a very small portion of the applicant pool, and we've seen several threads with mistakes like the one the OP made. If you look in a daily newspaper or a huge novel, you rarely will find a typo. If there were a typo every 500 words in one of those it would be effectively unreadable, because once an article, or every 2 pages, you'd have to go back and read a sentence again only to find out that someone screwed up in the editing process, and that would be exceedingly frustrating. And these types of media are printed within 24 hours or extend for hundreds of pages of text. (yes I know some articles are written weekly or ahead of time, but even so, looking at just the headline section you will still find very few typos)</p>
<p>There will be tons of essays without mistakes, and a mistake does stand out and might put the adcom in a poor frame of mind. Yes, it's only one little mistake that was an innocent typo, but it still makes the writer look sloppy.</p>
<p>I gave a hard time for lack of editing, but I said in my first post, I seriously doubt this will affect the OP's chances of acceptance. I essentially agreed with you, but added in a criticism of the sloppiness. The OP asked for people's opinions, and he got them. How about you stop giving me "sh1t?"</p>