<p>my teacher informed me that he had spelt my name wrong on my rec essay for Cornell... Is this a big deal? Should I call and say something about it?
My first name has 1 m in the middle while he wrote 2 m's</p>
<p>it might be a big problem, since the AOs may doubt whether you are the person that the teacher recommended in the letter or not.I guess you better ask your teacher to write an explanation letter with his/her signature to the undergrads office and in the meanwhile call them to explain.Best of luck.</p>
<p>Don't worry. Don't bother them. The rec is filing is done based on the part you fill in. Errors (spelling, GPA, class rank) by the teacher are immaterial, won't affect you. As discussed in another thread, student should not even see the rec at all. "Don't look, don't worry" policy is the best.</p>
<p>I never looked at the rec.</p>
<p>The teacher just informed me a couple of days after he sent it in that he accidentally did this.</p>
<p>I'm not afraid it will get to the right place; it already has.
I'm just afraid that when they read it, they'll think its BS and that the teacher doesn't really know me when in fact he knows me very well (Just doesn't know how to spell my name!@%!@%!@)</p>
<p>If the teacher actually told you that, then you may want to say that to the admissions office. Make sure you tell them that the teacher mentioned it to you, so everything looks legit. You can send a short email and it works. By the way, in my application to one of the schools I had forgotten to tick the gender. Sent an email after like 2 weeks, and they said they took care of it for me.</p>