<p>I made a huge mistake on my why chicago essay; I accidently said that "I enjoyed the fact that 100% of faculty were required to teach undergraduates" (that's what my GC told me) when the actual number is around 90%. </p>
<p>Who should I send a letter to?</p>
<p>I really wouldn't worry( easy for me to say, I know), the point is that a huge portion of the faculty teach, and that's what you meant. I don't see how your application could be dismissed over a detail when the general idea is so true. You are an applicant to the school not expected to be it's factual expert.</p>
<p>If you can't sleep, email your admissions person, or call the office for comfort.</p>
<p>hey dont worry. i made a teeny weeny error myself. In my extended, my first person narrator said that maybe his future self was sending him messages like in 'Paycheck'</p>
<p>That doesn't happen in Paycheck. I don't think I'm going to worry though.</p>
<p>I noticed I forgot "was" in "my quarter was chucked" in my main essay. It ended up reading "my quarter chucked."</p>
<p>After reading this one thousand times, having 3 teachers look at it, and several friends, I can't believe I didn't see this until right after I had submitted it.</p>
<p>I beat myself up over it last night, worried that all the time I've contributed to this application process was wasted because of a stupid typo, but I've had enough people tell me that it's really no big deal.</p>
<p>Don't panic. From everything I've learned about UChicago, I doubt they are going to base your admissions decision on a typo.</p>
<p>Proofreading is a lost art. If a typo was going to be a big problem, your entire generation would be in trouble.</p>
<p>yeah...see? I wrote "in my extended" and missed out the word "essay"</p>
<p>happens all the time, my friend.</p>
<p>I found a minor spelling discrepancy. I wrote 'math' once and 'maths' once. American vs British spelling ugh -- the adcom won't notice, they're in different essays, but I wanted to have an absolutely perfect application. I think most of it had to do with my saving a copy of my essay as a Word document and then transferring it into the application field. Oh well.</p>