<p>Too bad application season is over. The positions presented here about whether to approach admissions about the grammatical error and the thinking behind the alternatives would have made an interesting admissions essay. ;)</p>
<p>Of course, the essay would have gotten a lot of grammatical scrutiny. LOL</p>
<p>Modadunn, I guess 6,500 is small compared to a state’s flagship U where many more applications are processed. Not small compared to a LAC where 1800 are attending. I should clarify that it should be a medium sized school…</p>
<p>My son would have been happy to attend this school and we would have been happy to have him attend there, but one would think that someone in admissions would have picked that up.(Or someone in admissions just was making piles of RD and EA applications and his was filed incorrectly and was trying to correct??) Not a perfectionist here, but reading about petty (trivial or unimportant) matters this came to mind.</p>
<p>“BTW, I can’t tell you how often I read my posts (here or on my blog) and find an error. Thank goodness for the edit button and for understanding folks that don’t point out my typos!”</p>
<p>There’s an ‘edit’ button??
Where do I find it?</p>
<p>I agree that it reflects on the institution. Not the grammatical errors per se, but the lack of proofreading. Furthermore, this is a postcard where the text is very short. It should have been more carefully proofread, not just for spelling, and the proofreader should be someone with good editing skills. One would assume that a place like Northwestern has someone in their printing/admissions dept. who could perform this task. IMHO, it denotes a certain carelessness.</p>
<p>I agree, tango14. Isn’t Northwestern known for its journalism program? They don’t teach proofreading there?</p>
<p>I think it’s a mistake to think that this tells you anything about NW in particular. Rather, it’s just another sign of the general decline of our civilization.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s embarrassing for a school to make a mistake on a mailing and they should make a better effort to proofread. I, too, cringe when I see your for you’re, misspelled words (definately for definitely) and similar errors; however (;)), this one wouldn’t have bothered me too much.</p>