<p>So I log into my Carngie Mellon applicant portal, and find out that my application review has been COMPLETED already.</p>
<p>Today I opened up my WHY CMU essay I sent..I wanted to read it just for the heck of it hah. and I find a typo in the very first line..</p>
<p>It was supposed to say "What makes up Carnegie Mellon" and I swear I proofread before submitting but I guess I didn't catch how it said "What makes up the Carngie Mellon."</p>
<p>It sounds really stupid with the "the" in there, obviously because it doesn't belong there. And with it being the FOURTH word in the very first line of the essay, I don't know what the admission committee thought of me as they read this..</p>
<p>bottom line.. AM I SCREWED? My decision's been made already, as my status tells me the adcom has completed review of my apps...</p>
<p>Don’t stress, what ever happens now is out of your control now. Wish for the best and it will happen. Good Luck!</p>
<p>Yes, college admissions decisions are made completely by people who rank students to see whether they’d be good copy editors…</p>
<p>Not!</p>
<p>Calm down! Do you really think that college admissions officers are so anal retentive that they’d reject students for having a typo?</p>
<p>Dont stress, in my common app essay i proofed it like 400 times and found 3 MISTAKES after i had submitted it, my guess is i selected the wrong copy. Its not a huge deal,I later revised it and sent the “clean” copy to the rest of my schools, i still got into a school that i sent the “bad” copy to.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, to err is human 
don’t sweat the small stuff.</p>
<p>OMG YES YOUR SCREWED HEAD FOR THE EXITS NOW! THIS IS NO DRILL,THE SHIP IS SINKING, THE SHIP IS SINKING ABANDON YOUR BATTLESTATIONS!!!11111111</p>
<p><translation> : Dont worry about it. Your just wasting precious high school time worrying about something you shouldnt.</translation></p>
<p>Maybe they’ll think it was intentional like for emphasis. lol But anyways, don’t worry.</p>
<p>i know someone whose essay literally said …(insert something witty here)…
he said that he really did mean to go back and actually insert something but forgot. he later found out that the admissions board thought he said that on purpose and they all had a laugh. so really, typo or no typo, it’s what’s in the essay that counts (that being said, i don’t think blaring, repeating errors are good).</p>
<p>A bigger concern: did you continuously misspell “Carngie Mellon” as you did here? (should be Carnegie Mellon)</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s not going to be a make-or-break factor in your application. It was a silly mistake, and I’m sure you’re not the only one to make typo errors in your essays. Adcoms will get over it :)</p>
<p>limabeans - no, it was just a typo here. I spelled it Carnegie Mellon on my essay, lol, I would have flipped out even more and probably had a heart attack if I made that mistake. haha.</p>
<p>Yes, but send them some homemade chocolate chip cookies and they may “forget” about such trivial matters. <em>wink</em></p>
<p>No, really, don’t.</p>
<p>It’s so incredibly fine. You know how you can get a 6 on your SAT essay with grammar errors but a really smart overarching grasp of concept? Same thing applies here. Far more important is the message and person you conveyed in that essay.</p>
<p>yeah thanks guys, i’m not as worried now. I read through the rest of the essay which seems pretty clean and has no obvious errors like the first one. :)</p>