<p>Oh My God Oh My God Someone Please Tell Me What To Do! Help Me! I Found A Typo In My Common App Essay And I Have Already Sent It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 :-(</p>
<p>You could start by calming down.</p>
<p>okay but what do ido?? are they going to think im careless? will they reject me?</p>
<p>Seriously, CHILL OUT. What's the typo? What college is this?</p>
<p>I doubt it'll matter regardless, but details would help.</p>
<p>The faces swam before me in the as I stood on the front steps of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC. </p>
<p>it was supposed to be:</p>
<p>The faces swam before me as I stood on the front steps of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC. </p>
<p>omggggg</p>
<p>yeah, it really makes a difference where and what it is.
I doubt one typo could be that big of a deal.</p>
<p>I made my post before seeing yours.</p>
<p>it's not that big of a deal.
I had to read both lines a couple times to even notice.</p>
<p>has anyone made a typo and gotten accepted.. to top schools?</p>
<p>Of course people have made typos and gotten accepted. In the whole scheme of things, it is not that big a deal. Granted, it MIGHT look like you were careless, but quite honestly I don't think that one little typo will weigh in much, if at all. Calm down.</p>
<p>"The faces swam before me in the as(s)" LOL</p>
<p>Think positive: your typo will make you stand out of the crowd.</p>
<p>The good thing about the typo is that it's clear that it is a typo. If you were reading this in a book or a magazine, you would assume, "Editor's error." and automatically read on. </p>
<p>What is really bad is a gross grammatical error that sticks out like a sore thumb. Such as- "The faces swam before me as I have stand on the front steps of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC." Now that would convince adcoms you don't know good English.</p>
<p>So yes it's a slight negative point but if the rest of the essay is great adcoms will be happy to forgive a small error like that.</p>
<p>I said "negation" instead of "negotiation" in a Georgetown essay and was accepted. </p>
<p>I, my parents, 3 friends, and a teacher read my essay and missed it. The adcomms might not notice, and if they do, see NBZ's reply^</p>
<p>Ok time to calm down lol. I couldn't even find the error "in the" that was misplaced in the sentence until I read it over and over again for like a minute. The adcoms read through essays really quickly and something like that will easily go unnoticed.</p>
<p>ONE typo doesn't kill u, you can pray for the admission officer to read ur essay FIRST so he/she finds out that you got ONE typo, better than when he/she's cramming in the middle of the night reading these essays and see stars everywhere.</p>
<p>I don't think the OP should calm down, typos are a very serious issue these days! In fact, I know a dude who was sent to jail as a repeat offender for a 2nd degree typo.</p>
<p>:( bump.....................</p>
<p>Are you still upset about it? What about sending in a corrected copy on paper with a light-hearted note and a strong reiteration that you are very interested in the school? If you do this, make sure you don't have additional typos on the note or your corrected vesion of the essay -- that would really increase whatever damage is already done.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>you think i should send all the colleges another essay?</p>
<p>I think you should stop worrying about it. Like everyone's said, it's FINE.</p>
<p>stop worrying, I spelled sliver instead of silver in my essay and sent it to like what 5 schools before I even noticed...</p>