<p>What should I do?!?!?! I just looked at my essay that I submitted 2 days ago to Illinois Institute of Tech (on the Common App) cause I was going to recycle it for USC and I realized that I left out a couple words at the end of sentence at the end of one of paragraphs! I I don't know how I missed this when proofing!</p>
<p>What should I do now?!?! Am I screwed?!? It's Friday night and by the time I settle this it'll be Monday..do you think they've seen it already and shaken their heads in disappointment? :(</p>
<p>Should I call them on Monday or send an email right away? Do both? How do I explain myself? How can I send in a fixed copy?</p>
<p>Oh my god.....I'm so stupid. Advice please!</p>
<p>Well, first calm down. I can guarantee more egregious errors have been made, and very likely several hundred similar ones even at that school. I suppose you could call, but it probably won't be a make or break point anyway.</p>
<p>Calling and changing it could read that you didn't take the time to read the first time, but I doubt they're that critical. Either way, def don't worry so much haha</p>
<p>I've been in (relatively) close contact with one of the admissions officers - I've had a bunch of questions - so should I just contact her about the error and ask her for a way to submit a new one?</p>
<p>Are you suggesting I just leave it in there for them to discover? :S</p>
<p>Lol. I sorta know how you feel. I messed up the subject-verb agreement of the last sentence of my Stanford SCEA essay...a really stupid mistake because I just had to add a prepositional phrase between my subject and verb :(</p>
<p>Anywho...I don't think it's too big of a deal to have a typo or two. While a) it might mean you didn't take enough time to proof read your essay, most of the time it means b) that you're just human.</p>
<p>Don't stress. It's not the end of the world. You can call in and change it if you want...but I really don't think it's too big of a deal. btw...I got deferred from stanford...so the typo didn't exactly break me ;) Still hoping.</p>
<p>You can email them, it probably wouldn't hurt. But I don't think an incomplete sentence will kill you. I mean, I think one of the MIT admissions bloggers (can't remember which one) said that the first "sentence" of their MIT essay was an incomplete sentence, and guess what- they got in anyway.</p>
<p>While you shouldn't be making ANY mistakes on these essays- one probably won't kill you, but it'll hurt.</p>
<p>honestly if i was an admissions director and some kid called me crying about an incomplete sentance i'd through away their application
i doubt that simple mistake will hurt</p>