<p>@meghna
Love your ‘pennmanship’ or ‘pennwomanship’ ;)</p>
<p>Gary,
Hope this will make you put your “ouch” moment in perspective. Enjoy!!!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html?highlight=clamfart[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html?highlight=clamfart</a></p>
<p>Haha, I know about that! Only thing is, my error is not just ‘funny’, I’ve mentiioned a rival university 
But thanks for the link :)</p>
<p>To be completely honest, this does almost completely ensure your rejection. I mean, maybe if your application was basically perfect otherwise you could still get in, but this is a really good reason for them not to admit you. As for those who say the adcoms will get a kick out of it, they probably will, and then they’ll throw the app in the “no” pile. It’s not like they’re going to say, “ha, this kid forgot to change Penn to Stanford, let’s admit him!”.</p>
<p>^^ I had already accepted that fact as so many others stated in this tread :-/ This thread was created so that you could have a kick out of it, not for getting myself kicked
(no offense)</p>
<p>I would confront the elephant in the room. I’d send a letter to them apologizing for the mistake and taking responsibility for it. Try to use this as an example of how you face adversity. Anyone can just say “byebye Stanford”. You need to show just how much you want it and what your character consists of.</p>
<p>Get on the phone. Admit you reused part of your essay. Take responsibility. If the admission’s committee is smart they’ll take this in stride. If not, F it. If you take responsibility and they want to “teach you a lesson of just how unforgiving Stanford is”, then I don’t even know why you’d want to go their in the first place… a bunch of pretentious pricks.</p>
<p>This should be more of a test for them, than you. </p>
<p>Do it.</p>
<p>…and if any Stanford adcoms are reading this (to which I hope they are), a little humility goes a long way. And no, I wasn’t rejected from Stanford.</p>
<p>You know what’d be funny? If you write a why essay and write a different school name in every other sentence. And then you say something like, but then again, Stanford has all of that and blah blah blah. It’s funny and flattering and clever!</p>
<p>^^ NOT
Unless its an ‘imaginary’ school. I prefer to follow Rocket’s advice :P</p>
<p>rocketDA’s advice is perfect. Just call them and own up to your mistake. Maturity on your part. They probably know that you know by now that you made this mistake.</p>
<p>Final Verdict-
Stanford- Rejected
Penn- Accepted
And I prefer it that way :D</p>
<p>Busted by Stanford admissions, gary7! ; ) Have fun at Penn!</p>
<p>Thanks! Where are you headed to?</p>
<p>haha I think that is fitting</p>
<p>For the record UPenn was my only acceptance in the US 
10 rejections and one waitlist :)</p>