<p>Chillax dude(or dudette)! Its not like college matters or anything!</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."
-------Nice! lol</p>
<p>I seriously doubt the admissions group will ever reject a student solely because they read a SMALL mistake as this one. That said, if the rest of your essays are clean and excellent (grammatically), I would assume most, if not all, readers will treat this as a common mistake, not as careless.</p>
<p>I think that colleges would be more concerned about admitting a person who panics over a small mistake like a typo than they would be concerned about admitting someone who makes a very human, ordinary mistake like a typo. Really, the typo is no big deal. Even I had to read your sentence several times before spotting it. Admissions officers aren't trying to be copy editors, but are reading essays to learn about students' character and writing abilities.</p>
<p>I strongly recommend against sending in a corrected version with a note. This is the kind of typo that some people won't even notice, especially if it's the only one in the essay. You don't want to draw attention to it.</p>
<p>Trust me, they'll have plenty of essays to deal with that have actually grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.</p>
<p>It's absolutely no big deal. Try to clam down. I think your anxiety is the biggest problem here.</p>
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has anyone made a typo and gotten accepted.. to top schools?
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I heard someone repeatedly wrote "Standford" and still got into Stanford.</p>
<p>lol this is a joke, right?</p>
<p>why in the world would it be a joke?</p>
<p>I spelled a number of things wrong (aferlife instead of afterlife... starring instead of staring.. and about three others) and I got into UChicago-- a school that focuses on the essay above all else. </p>
<p>You're making way too big a deal about this, I thought it was a troll post when I first saw it. Chill out.</p>
<p>yeah....I made a couple of typos....Many people read my essay, didn't find anything. I found the mistake a week before the decisions and got in. I sent my financial aid document a week after the deadline, made a big mistake while filling the common app ...which I corrected later by sending them the email.......but I still got in..So, please calm down....Pleaseeeeeeeee.</p>
<p>WHat kind of mistake did you make on your Common App?
I know that I have a typo extending a one week program to 5 weeks(I told them it was one wek, though) and accidentally I wrote member of Club team on the Comapp and Leader of club team on the EC list.
This got to Harvard</p>
<p>DO you guys think I should correct that or will they assume that these were just administration errors not affecting anything I could do on their campus?</p>
<p>On one of my apps, I accidentally put I was born in Sudan (it was a drop-down list, right next to my real country). :) Ofcourse I sent them an e-mail to correct it. Was rejected anyway. haha</p>