I sent in my UW application like a month ago. I just looked at it online today and noticed that i have a mistake on my essay. There is a sentence that repeats ‘about the about the’. I never noticed it when i proofread it. ■■■ do i do?
<p>You chill out. There's nothing you can do now, and in all honesty it won't be a big deal. If they don't accept you, it most likely won't be because you typed two words twice.</p>
<p>you can't do anything. just hope that the admissions people will overlook the minor gramatical mistake and focus more on your traits.</p>
<p>Looks like Alabama A&m for you!</p>
<p>Drug-addicted homeless criminal, if ever I heard of one.</p>
<p>Last year a kid put the postage stamp upside down on the application envelope. His life was completely ruined.</p>
<p>Really? How come? The post office people should have just sent it back to him so he could correct it and resend it.</p>
<p>cd8705 - i think you can write to them and explain the mistake. I'm sure they wont mind. my friend made a similar mistake on his MIT (!) form last year. Under Dad's name, he wrote his own name there. He wrote to MIT and explained the error, profusely apologising at the same time, and they acknowledged his letter and filed it with his profile. last time i heard, he was majoring in Aero eng in MIT.</p>
<p>chill !</p>
<p>IMHO, the worst you can do is hope that the adcom overlooks it. They see this as irresponsibility on your part. even if you submitted, and you discovered the error after that, it just shows that you care enough to scrutinize your app. that's my opinion.</p>
<p>oh coureur, im curious. what do you mean by 'completely ruined'?</p>
<p>I imagine coureur was being facetious. Mistakes happen and I'm sure the adcoms have seen them all, so repeating a phrase isn't all that big a deal. When the OP proofed the essay, he/she saw the sentence as it was intended to be read; maybe the adcom will do the same. </p>
<p>Many weeks after my oldest daughter submitted one application, she noticed that she had used the phrase "recently decreased" instead of "recently deceased." (Darn that spellcheck!) We had to laugh about it and still do occasionally. She was waitlisted at that particular school, btw, but it's mega-selective and we never thought the typo was responsible.</p>
<p>There's this great school called University of Phoenix Online. I think they might accept you. It'd be a reach though.</p>
<p>yeah i emailed the UW and told them about my mistake</p>
<p>I did the exact same thing in a recent essay of mine, and have had the same dilemna...the essay is excellent, but I'm afraid the slight mistake will make them view me as lazy. Not too sure what to do since it was my common app essay, and 7 of my colleges will receive it.</p>