Mistake on your college application? This is for you.

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<p>For all of you stressing out, look up “Clam Fart” on google/college confidential.
<a href=“Errors on essays - Did you get accepted anyway? - Parents Forum - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/793455-errors-on-essays-did-you-get-accepted-anyway.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Alternatively, here is how the admissions committee at W&M views such things
<a href=“Hit the Submit Button, Not the Panic Button - The William & Mary Blogs”>http://wmblogs.wm.edu/admiss/hit-the-submit-button-not-the-panic-button/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Ok well I am Hispanic(Mexico) and that’s what I marked on the common app and all my SATs/ACTs etc… However I just noticed my school has me marked down as white and no ethnicity. I’ve already submitted some of my apps and now I’m worried that they will deny me because they think that I’m not telling the truth. I know that my high school guidance counselor has to enter some info in to the common app for me. Does any of that include ethnicity? Or do colleges only rely on my response in common app and standardized testing. Thanks</p>

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<p>OMG I put that I will receive a general diploma instead of college preparatory diploma! should I email admissions?</p>

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<p>I somehow skipped the page that asked to select your major, now it says I am “undecided” :frowning: I have a good idea of what major I will pursue. Hopefully they will overlook it and give me a call.</p>

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I’m reviving this thread because I just noticed a typo and I’m stressing so bad. I’m homeschooled and decided to mail in some small binders with all of my academic info to each college. I wrote a short letter at the beginning to explain my situation. I meant to write “I will receive an accredited diploma” but I accidentally put “I will receive a accredited diploma” and I already put the letter in the binders and mailed them to my top 5 schools. It’s too late now and I can only hope they won’t notice or will at least overlook the typo. It was 1am when I finished that letter and I honestly just wanted to get those binders finished and mailed by the next morning… :confused:

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I just noticed that after applying to a few schools I put 2-TEAR All Stater instead of Year, I feel like the tears are pretty accurate

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I forgot a “to” in one of my short essays for Michigan. The sentence reads “What other activity would allow me reminisce about the time Farquaad lost his leg?”. I’m super scared because I feel like selective schools will use any reason to narrow down their applicants. I really hope they just read over it, but I’m not feeling too confident…

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For my UC app, i didnt put all my volunteer activities. You can put max 5 but i put 4 even though service is my biggest asset. Although my essay was good and free of mistakes, some parts of my app wasnt that clean. I sent my sat scores. My act was really high and my sat was low, yet i sent them anyway.

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I submitted my application for the University of Washington and I went back to check my Personal Statement and realized I that near the end it said Rutgers instead of UW. Hopefully that doesn’t affect their decision making process. :\

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Bringing this back but I don’t care haha

I sent the first draft of my commonapp to multiple schools… I was internally screaming :slight_smile:

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Did anyone mention…Clam Farts?
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html

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^ Love that thread

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I spelled “science” wrong (as “sciene”) and sent it to 9 schools before I realized my mistake, even though I checked my common app every time I sent one in.

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Listen… I put ‘fro’ instead of ‘for’… twice! not to mention two misplaced commas

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Reviving this once again - I spelled ‘exuberance’ ‘exhuberance’. Don’t know how I could miss it, thankfully it was in a supplement so sent only to one school (but it is one of my top choices :slight_smile:

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I used “are” instead of “is”(e.g. “The other half are” instead of “the other half is”)in a college supplement essay and I used an unecessary comma. I blame both of these mistakes on doing this essay last minute. To anyone reading this,who hasn’t applied to college yet,start your essays at least 2 months in advance and try not to make any silly mistakes(it’s okay if you do since you’re human,but it would be better if you didn’t. Who knows the person reading your essay may be an ultimate grammar nazi. I hope whoever reads mine/has read mine is not a grammar nazi :s )

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I accidentally indicated in my theatre supplement it was an acting portfolio, when it was a directorial portfolio. I think it’s safe to say they are not going to like that. Plus, not my fault, but my professor made several grammatical errors on his own name and title for the supplemental application recommendation. I notice this afterwards. Yeah. Mistakes-mistakes.

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In my additional information section of my Common App, I incorrectly referred to Activity 3 as Activity 6 and Activity 2 as Activity 5.

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In one of my college-specific supplemental short answers, I said that “I plan to have have guest speakers…” and I even reviewed it like 1341 times… ugh

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In my common app to one of my colleges, I said “I began to see the myself a bit differently.” I’m screeching!!! My essay is very strong otherwise, and that one college is the only one that has the mistake in it, but gosh am i dumb for not catching that…I had read over so many times and felt safe. Nobody else had caught it either :frowning: Do you think that will hurt me or will they dismiss it?