<p>Okay.
I'm panicking.
I know it's going to hurt me ALOT. ALOT AND ALOT AND ALOT.</p>
<p>but I sent my Columbia College Essay in a hurry, and I woke up from sleeping just now because I realized I had loaded the Essay with me mentioning MIT.
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<p>I know I made a STUPID, STUPID mistake.
Will this not make me get in at all?
despite if I had good essay and others?!??</p>
<p>oooh
sorry.
you never know, but they dont really like it when we recycle essays. I mean they know we DO it, but they'd rather its kept a secret, you know?
well at least MIT and columbia arent rivals...
its not like you said harvard in a P or Y essay</p>
<p>If you mentioned MIT to compare with Columbia, that's okay I guess [I still don't think you should compare universities].</p>
<p>If you mentioned MIT in place of Columbia, that could be trouble.</p>
<p>There's a chance that your app could pass through the hands of some sympathetic readers who might find it in their heart to overlook your flub, but odds are that they'll not take kindly to it, since they have so many other superb applicants to consider.</p>
<p>helloitsme, this might just be a game breaker. By having MIT in there you not only show that you have recycled an essay, but it shows that you were careless enough to not even remove the name of your previous school from the document. it also shows them that you wrote the MIT essay first and then adapted it to columbia. I can't see how they'll look past it and say "he/she is still demonstrated a deep interest in attending columbia". perhaps they'll skim your essay and miss it, but i doubt that, it is a contextual not a grammatical mistake. I guess you've learned the lesson the hard way, and if you do get in you got really really lucky. I looked at your stats and they're decent, you should get in to a top 25 college.</p>
<p>Did you actually write out a Columbia essay and simply click the wrong button and accidentally upload the MIT essay? If so, why the heck wouldn't you somehow send in the correct essay and explain to Columbia that you made a technical glitch. I'm not sure why you'd let this stand as is.</p>
<p>That's an excellent solution Columbia2002.</p>
<p>I would call the admissions office and tell them the wrong essay was uploaded. Perhaps the person that answers the phone has a solution, maybe he/she can unlock your app so you can fix it. In a worst case possible situation I would send in the revised essay with your other paper documents. At least then you'll have a 50/50 chance that they'll use the already printed up essay, versus having to print the online version.</p>
<p>^ go with what Columbia2002 and luke are saying--call the admissions office and say it was a glitch, that you uploaded the essay by mistake. i don't think they can unlock the app, but you'll probably be able to fax over the correct essay.</p>
<p>I'd go with C2002's advice. Nobody will know how "Big" of a mistake it was. Maybe the content s all the same just with MIT and Columbia switched. Doesn't matter. Just switch essays</p>
<p>I just noticed -- is post #4 from the same Dave Berry who makes a living doling out this sort of advice in books and articles? My post was not novel, creative or brilliant....</p>
<p>yeah, you might also want to change the actual essay in case they read the MIT one. If you only had MIT in there and no columbia then you might be fine, if you had all columbia and a couple of MIT, then you better hope they don't read it. Saying it was a technical glitch might mean they won't read your original essay, but to be safe i would write a different (at least differently phrased) essay for columbia, unless you can't put together a good essay in 2 days.</p>
<p>Even after changing 'MIT' to 'Columbia', rewrite your entire essay, if not its obvious that you recycled it.</p>
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