<p>I read and reread my application before submitting it just because I saw some threads on here saying people misspelled words or had some sort of grammatical error. I wanted to make sure all the small mistakes were fixed. So... I finally turn in my application.. I then reread extremely slowly and notice that I misspelled a word in one of my essays. hahaha wow.</p>
<p>I had two grammatical errors: a comma where I should have had a semicolon and a “yet” instead of a “but”. I read and reread and reread my essay over and over, had my parents edit it, and had my English teacher edit it, but no one picked up on either error. I’m hoping that the admissions officers won’t either, and I guess the same goes for your essay too. It’s highly unlikely that a typo will make or break an application.</p>
<p>It’s really not a big deal. At all.</p>
<p>they will call you house and personally make sure that you get rejected, and tell you how stupid you are for making such an uncommon mistake that no one in the history of college application has ever made.</p>
<p>All I can say is that I submitted my essay with a typo to Gtown and was deferred. I submitted the same essay without a typo to Swarthmore and got in and am a finalist for a scholarship. I decided I’m blaming the deferral on my typo. Haha.</p>
<p>I don’t think a typo will make a huge difference but my typo ended up being another word which means that, not only is it a typo, it’s a grammatical error. It’s obvious what the word is supposed to be though so I highly doubt it’s a big deal. I hope that whoever is stressed out about applying reads this and (1) is influenced to fix errors they might have missed and (2) gets a quick laugh out of it. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone though! I’m hoping for the best!</p>
<p>Do people actually think a school will reject a student that it would otherwise accept based on a couple typos?</p>
<p>WHY do people reread their applications AFTER they sent them in?? Seriously, can someone explain this to me? Nothing good can come of that. Either you’ll see that you didn’t make a mistake, which makes no difference, or you’ll find a mistake but it’s too late to fix it, and then you feel like crap. I have never, EVER felt tempted to read over any of my sent applications and I’m really curious as to why people do that.</p>
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Totally with you on that. I try to never look at my application after they’re submitted in case I feel like I could have done better. There’s not much I can do anyways.</p>
<p>^I agree too. I haven’t even glanced at my applications since submitting. It’s not like I can change them now.</p>
<p>…I did it once. Yup…felt horrible.</p>
<p>i know people who write a second one and send it in. Enthusiasm is a good thing.</p>
<p>Yeah; I don’t look at mine after. Really, why torture yourself?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t normally reread my app after submission, but I would think it can be necessary sometimes. For example, if you made a HUGE error (misreporting your ethnicity or whatever) then it’s better to see it then and contact the school than never.</p>
<p>^That’s true. I checked so many times before submitting though. I printed out a hard copy and checked things off line by line because I was so paranoid.</p>