<p>hey guys I think I screwed my essays. I was so sleepy when I submitted my app that I didnt bother reviewing. one mistake was that person XYZ has ABC disease instead of person ABC suffers from XYZ disease. n I wrote my fatherhas instead of my father has.
R they going to hate me because I can not even write plain english?</p>
<p>The first mistake may confuse them, but I honestly don’t think they’ll care too much about the typo (they’re ppl too and won’t reject you just because you had a typo in your essay).</p>
<p>thanks wannabyalie, that was encouraging!!did u also apply RD to Yale?</p>
<p>No, I’m only a sophomore. I hope to apply in the future though!</p>
<p>They might care, because people have been working on these essays for weeks and yours shows a last-minute sort of thing.</p>
<p>True, but I don’t think it would be reasonable to throw out an entire application because of one trivial error.</p>
<p>No, but, as has already been stated, the admissions officers are human, which means that little things may unconsciously affect their judgment. When they’re considering your profile, and they get to thinking about your essays, somewhere, whether at the back or at the front of their minds, they’ll think that you didn’t put as much effort as you should have into your essays. Some people wrote their essays over a period of months, and, within the Ivy League, they can expect this kind of dedication in applications. </p>
<p>That said, if you’re an excellent applicant, this won’t get you rejected. It could just contribute to other things that make you seem less great.</p>
<p>I submitted my app, reviewed it a week later, and found a nasty typo. I got in RD after being deferred SCEA last year. </p>
<p>Also, I had spent weeks editing that essay. It was all the editing that had introduced the typo in the first place. The readers really won’t be that bothered by this mistake; they are very aware that people make more typos/other errors when under great stress. Don’t worry about the error.</p>
<p>At least you didn’t finish your essay. “… I believe that Harvard/NEC would provide me with the environment to become a better person, mathematician and musician.”</p>
<p>^ LOL (10 char)</p>
<p>Ok…put yourself in the shoes of the reader…would you care about the typo? would you empathise with the poor kid trying to write the perfect essay and missing the word reversal? If Yale rejects you for that, would you want to go to a college that nixes all the other stuff on the application because of a typo? My son wrote a really wacky funny essay and then said…“the essay will probably kill my chances”. I say…do you want to go somewhere where the admissions officers pick only the serious students? If they think you are too quirky for Yale based on one 450 word essay…well, then, you probably are. If you get nixed for a typo, perhaps that means you don’t really belong at we-are-perfect-U. I doubt that you can be nixed for an essay unless you talk about torturing kittens.</p>
<p>I put have the dumbest typo known to man in my essay too, but i do think it is a good essay in terms of the content, if they can’t appreciate that then that’s that…
i agree with fineartsmajormom^.</p>
<p>lmao at the first mistake
neither of which is major enough to automatically reject you
i think the first one might hurt a bit but the second one more or less won’t hurt at all</p>
<p>Unless you typed in 1337 speak for your entire essay, I doubt they will even give it a second thought. Relax.</p>
<p>^That would be hilarious.
or
+h@+ //0u|<em>D 8e |-|i|</em>@ri0u$</p>
<p>^
Or submitting an essay about why you love Columbia to Yale. LOL.</p>
<p>LOL, i almost did that with my why Brown response, i typed in Yale by accident! Luckily i noticed before i sent it in but it was a very close call indeed. And yet i’m still lazy when it comes to proof reading…:p</p>
<p>I’m sure the stress you’re feeling is awful, but its really going to be fine. A couple of typos aren’t going to negate the rest of your application. </p>
<p>This type of thing is the reason i refuse to even look at my essays once theyre submitted, which is actually difficult because i’d love to give my dad the essay i wrote about him teaching me to ski but I’m too afraid I’ll see a mistake and flip out.</p>