<p>I don't know if I'm overreacting or not. So I sent in my essay under separate cover (e-mail) and today I was reading it again. I sent my essay in the early morning and was still making changes when I did, but I went over it a hundred times. Today, I found two small typos. The first, I wrote "where" when I should have wrote "were" and the second, I omitted the word "in."</p>
<p>I know this sounds so mock dramatic, but the typos are towards the end, which I feel is the most powerful, and I'm really proud of the piece of writing overall. I don't want the admissions counselors to think I just didn't take the time to go over the essay (6 pages). It feels so amateurish.</p>
<p>Any advice? Should I send an e-mail with the "new" essay?</p>
<p>You bet. So does sending in a 6-page essay. Guess what? You're an amateur. Along with everyone else who applied.</p>
<p>If it helps any, I don't think I've ever read anything that a high-school senior handed in that's more than a paragraph and that didn't have a couple of typos. If Chicago rejected people because their essays had a couple of typos, there would be hardly anyone left to accept</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better. I left out something major on my application. Major as in, not a typo, but something that would have very likely changed a "no" to a "yes" if I had been in any way on the bubble.</p>
<p>I didn't have the foresight to e-mail my rep about this significant omission (I didn't know this website existed either... those were the days...) and I have a feeling that one of my teachers mentioned it in his rec. Either way, it was small peanuts for me, and it shouldn't be a big deal for you.</p>
<p>If sending in the corrected version will make you sleep better at night, go do it, but to be perfectly honest I imagine that the office would be more annoyed with one more request added to the massive influx of stuff right now rather than annoyed that you have a typo or two in your essays.</p>
<p>Actually, the one thing I'm <em>not</em> worried about is the length. Haha. It really was such a personal, important thing for me to write and I'm happy with how it turned out. If Chicago doesn't like it, I'm probably not the right candidate for the school. </p>
<p>I guess it's just "buyer's remorse." I love the school and I'm in no way a perfectionist and have never really freaked about anything like this before. I'm just anxious. Jitters, I guess.</p>
<p>Thanks, you guys made me feel a lot better.</p>
<p>^^ The adcoms would set a word limit if they wanted one. Some of the best essays I've read for Chicago have been long ones, some of them very long ones, so I don't think there is any way for us to judge how the adcoms are going to receive the 6 page essay unless we've read it ourselves and we have intimate knowledge of each ad officer.</p>
<p>(whoops, you posted before me, ygj)</p>
<p>I would add that I thought very much the way you did once when I finished my own Chicago essay... I figured that if the adcoms for Chicago or for any of my schools didn't like it, then I wouldn't like being a student there.</p>
<p>On the topic of essays, would it have been bad if I used my 4 page essay (Unalove: the trip one) for the Common App main essay. I mean, they don't state that there is a word limit...</p>