<p>On the Common Application submission for the essay, it didn't say anywhere that there needed to be a heading (write your name, birthday, school) on there, so I didn't include it in the essay and submitted. Now I am applying to another school and realized that in the Print Preview of the Common Application it did say that you needed the heading. I tried to change the uploaded document but it won't let me. I can't start an alternate application because it said I had to submit my Supplement Application first and I did so I can't delete the college or start a new one. I'm freaking out because I'm afraid they will penalize me for not following directions... Is the mistake a really big deal or not?</p>
<p>it doesn't sound like a big deal at all, i dont see why they would penalize you for this. and i highly doubt you're the only one who made this mistake. </p>
<p>on another note, where is this "print preview" part of the commonapp?</p>
<p>dude stop freaking it out. The reason that it says so on the print preview page is because, usually when people print preview, they send in hard copies.....</p>
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<p>yeah.... i did the same thing too. Hope it dosn't matter too much!</p>
<p>i did the same. But if the college really needed it. They would say so on the actual common app and not just on the PDF version.</p>
<p>I looked at my daughter's common application (we printed a copy before submitting it final) because she hadn't put a heading on either. This was different than the print preview! The common app automatically generated the following: at the top it says Personal Essay Upload and has her name and on the bottom it seems to have her number and her name again. I think you don't need to worry.</p>