Made some typos in the supplementary essay! Advice needed

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>I submitted my application yesterday, but, after reading the application over today, I realized that I made two silly typos :(</p>

<p>the first one:
I meant to write "the moment when all my muscles ache" but, instead, I wrote "the moment when my all my muscles ache"</p>

<p>the second mistake:
I wrote "all my areas of interest" instead of "all of my areas of interest"</p>

<p>I don't know how glaring or bad these typos are.. but I am really bothered by them right now. Should I contact the admissions office and tell them I made a mistake or should I just leave them??</p>

<p>And just one more question.. is it wrong if I use thing type of construction?
Death not only witnessed... but it brought...
or are the two phrases not parallel??</p>

<p>Thank you!!</p>

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<li>Most people auto-correct while reading (I for one had to read your sentences twice to notice the error)</li>
<li>I doubt it has any significant impact on your app.</li>
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<p>@weeknd so you recommend that I just leave the essays the way they are and to not bother the admissions officers/? That made me feel much better. Thanks!</p>

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<p>@singgus I literally read those through like 10 times before eventually finding the error. I think you are fine.</p>

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<p>@ARandomGeek‌ alright, then I won’t do anything to bring more attention to the errors. Thank you everyone! I feel much better now.</p>

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<p>My daughter made what I thought was a huge obvious typographical error on one of her responses. She’d made pdf’s of her files and I was looking them over after the fact. I didn’t tell her because I knew it would break her heart.</p>

<p>She was accepted anyway. Don’t sweat it. Most readers are reading quickly which means they are scanning for information and content. I don’t think those two typos will hurt you if that’s all that happened. And if - for any reason - you don’t get in, recognize it wasn’t the typos - so don’t second guess yourself, okay! To err is human.</p>

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<p>Completely agree with the above posts. This isn’t something to worry about and it will not be the reason you will be accepted or not. </p>

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<p>Thanks everyone! Good to know those are not mistakes to worry about.</p>

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<p>singgus,</p>

<p>For the future…it is all right, not alright.</p>

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<p>The first one is more obvious. The second one isn’t exactly a big error. It all depends on how the admissions guys are feeling then.</p>

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<p>It’s honestly not going to make or break your application. Obvious or not - they’re skimming 50,000+ applications.</p>

<p>Don’t worry about it.</p>