<p>blackeyedsusan, glad you read that. Most people are shocked, but I swear, nobody noticed it. Over and over again.</p>
<p>And on the original note, I felt the same thing as you. Worst nightmare? "This one is a doozy." (1st sentence, original post). I'm thinking student was at interview, got drunk, threw drink in interviewer's face for being a Bush supporter (i.e. a really awful scene), licking my chops at the thought of a doozy, and what do I get?</p>
<p>Three typos.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for all the reassurances and ideas. I think we pretty much have a 50-50 split on whether to leave things alone or do a correction, but at least I know that I was right to be perplexed and that D's guidance counselor didn't necessarily have the only good answer. The funny proofreading stories were very much appreciated. I'm convinced that spellcheck is the spawn of the devil, which is why I rarely use it!</p>
<p>D called the colleges today, and all were receptive to her sending in a corrected essay, either via fax or email. I had told her to stay anonymous in order to keep her options open, but she had to disclose her name in most cases in order to be transferred to the right person, so I guess she's committed to one path now.</p>
<p>I'm sorry I misled some with the thread title. I should have called it "Essay Nightmare". I was being intentionally overdramatic in order to attract some attention, but I forgot that this forum is often used to discuss very serious personal matters.</p>
<p>Spell check doesn't catch using the wrong word.</p>
<p>The Wednesday after the inauguration our church hosted an interfaith worship service with the theme: "One Nation Under God"</p>
<p>We had participants from many faith communities, Hebrew, Muslim, Hindu, Baha'i, Sikh, Jain, Christian - including Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Methodist and Roman Catholic.</p>
<p>the typo in the order of worship was:
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND OFFERING
Offering will be divided between the food panties of LICC and Va Hospitals.</p>
<p>Spell Check isn't enough - even grammar check won't catch things like that.</p>
<p>slightly off topic. DD (junior in high school) is a vicious copy editor. Gets very annoyed when she finds errors in her books. She can't stand typos, or worse, when the author mixes up her characters and doesn't keep track of the back history. She wants to go into a science field, but she would make a great editor. How does one get into that field?</p>
<p>Copy editing field: She can start out copy editing for her high school publications. All h.s. publications and college ones are desperate for good copy editors.</p>
<p>In college, she should work for her college newspaper, which probably will welcome her with open arms. When she's a rising junior, she should take the Dow Jones Copy editing test. If she does well, she'll get a paid summer newspaper internship. To prep for the test, she should read the AP stylebook and be familiar with current events, including knowing how to spell the names of world leaders.</p>
<p>For more info, Google "Dow Jones internships".</p>
<p>Also Google "ACES", the copy editors professional organization.</p>
<p>Karen Colleges, I sent you a PM.</p>
<p>Don't ever spell check while "multitasking." I was sending an email to all partners asking them to send in their evaluations. I must have had a typo, because the word spell check offered was ejaculations. I caught it and didn't send, but I would have never heard the end of it if I had requested my partners to send me their ejaculations.</p>
<p>^ too funny!</p>
<p>"S1 listed his dad's job as "faceless bureaucrat" on the application to our state flagship..."</p>
<p>CountingDown, I love your son!</p>
<p>Oh, missypie! It would have gone down in firm lore...</p>
<p>I read and reread a letter of rec for a student to Princeton. Made all the corrections, I thought. After it was gone, I found one more. Yuck! I corrected it, sent it in with a sticky on it in handwriting asking them to replace it, that I didn't want it on my conscience if my error caused my student to be rejected to such an "august school." Student is currently a junior at P. Can't hurt to request a substitution.</p>