<p>Should you write the school and tell them that you realize you have a typo? My ds spelled traumatic as tramatic on a timed essay that the took. It is submitted. We can look at it but not change it. Should he write and tell them he made a mistake or hope that they are so wowed by the essay that they don’t mind the mistake?</p>
<p>I submitted one of my recommendation letters to two different schools before I realized the teacher wrote I was on the Tennis Team when I wasn’t. I hope it won’t affect anything…</p>
<p>rbunch - usually people do not see the teacher’s letters, so you could not possibly be held responsible for what was in it. It wont make a difference.</p>
<p>Luckily only one school got my typo. The last word on my essay said “done”, I meant to write “down”. I’m scarred because it is the LAST word, and that will leave a major effect.</p>
<p>Help please!!, for my college app, when it told me to calculate my grade, i accidentally put the wrong one, but the thing is, its lower then my actual grade, will i still get in trouble?</p>
<p>Ellimist - send an email to all the schools that got it, and update them. No you will not get into trouble.</p>
<p>On my resume, additional was spelt as additonal.
My counselor didn’t catch it and neither did my friends who edited it.
Hopefully, adcoms won’t either!</p>
<p>i spelled underprivileged as underpriviliged. </p>
<p>which is ironic if you think about it LOL</p>
<p>Well I still didn’t sumbit my application but I’m not sure what field in Engineering I want to choose, so I chose any two random Engineering fields (when it asks you for your first choice and your second choice majors). Now if I decide I want ANOTHER major, will there be no way I can change fields/majors before I start college?</p>
<p>I spelled oklahoma wrong for mit… oklahama</p>
<p>On my main essay, I forgot a period. Doh. I edited it and somehow missed a period. There’s a fair amount of spacing between the end of that sentence and the next still, so you can tell they’re separate. But still, what a silly mistake. I even looked it over!</p>
<p>I did not capitalize the “P” in Psychology when I said it twice in my essay - It was a well written essay that I am proud of but when I looked back after it was too late I felt like it was the end of the world. :/</p>
<p>I accidently wrote, “People are be fascinated by…” in my common app essay and sent it out to 5 schools. oops. hopefully, they’ll just skim over the “be”…</p>
<p>I might just win the prize for the worst messup in Common App history.</p>
<p>Before I sent it in, I was clearly sure that my app had everything, as per preview. A day before sending my Common App to Caltech early action, I clicked on view document for both personal essay and additional info, and the documents were definitely there.</p>
<p>Exactly a month after early action deadline, I was reading through my common app for no particular reason and noticed that my PERSONAL ESSAY was replaced with the additional info.</p>
<p>I immediately sent an email to the Caltech admission office with the personal essay (it was last edited on 10/31/2010 in Document Properties, I mentioned that in the email…). I seriously hope this won’t completely eradicate my chance…</p>
<p>Ugh, I spelled synagogue as synogogue. Twice. I hope they don’t notice but Brandeis might raise an eyebrow.</p>
<p>On one of my applications, my middle name is my first, and my first is my middle. This is going to be problematic.</p>
<p>I used a period instead of a question mark. </p>
<p>“Did they ask tough questions and sometimes expose logical flaws. Absolutely.”</p>
<p>I wrote ‘too’ instead of ‘to’. And there was another one, but I can’t seem to remember it now…</p>
<p>I was a total idiot. I wrote the wrong social security number. Then again, in my defense, the paper my mom gave me had the wrong one, but still. I look like an idiot. Farewell Ivy’s… I’m sorry I have failed you! I would much rather have a spelling typo that a wrong social security number any day.</p>
<p>I used two different names to reference the same person in my personal statement without clarification…whoever reads that is going to be really confused at best.</p>