Screwed up super bad- is it over for me?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, I completely screwed up. On my common app, for my short answer, I guess my character count was messed up, and about half a sentence got cut out. So my short answer ends in the middle of a sentence.</p>

<p>I looked at it today, and nearly died when I saw that the short answer was cut off. What's worse is that I've already submitted the common app to about ten schools..have I effectively signed my death sentence?</p>

<p>I still have some more schools that i have to submit to, and so i created a replica application and fixed the app. But for the schools I already submitted to, am I done for? </p>

<p>Thanks for any advice/help. Really appreciate it.</p>

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<p>Ummm…</p>

<p>I’m not certain, but I don’t think you will die.</p>

<p>I would just write to colleges explaining your situation and how it looked fine to you, but later you noticed. Then tell them how you wanted to do it.</p>

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<p>Omgogomgomg your death sentence has been signed! Its all over!@@@@@@@@@@@@@$</p>

<p>Calm down. It likely won’t have the slightest effect on your applications.</p>

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<p>Don’t Sweat! Do what marshiechen said and everything will be fine.</p>

<p>And if for some reason you’re going to apply to other schools and don’t want to send your common app again with the half sentence at the end of your short answer then just download and print the pdf of the common app for that school and fill it out manually to send to the colleges.</p>

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<p>How would you suggest going about this? Would I send snail-mail to each admissions office?</p>

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<p>Personally, I wouldn’t do anything, and I’m a perfectionist. It’s not like a whole paragraph got cut out… it’s a few words. </p>

<p>If you mail each college an explanation for why a few words is missing at the end of one of (many I assume) the short answer questions, you will seem as obsessive compulsive to them as you do to me.</p>

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<p>It wouldn’t surprise me if half the adcoms that read your application won’t even notice. I’m pretty sure that short answers are scanned quickly rather than read carefully – if you were reading hundreds of apps each week, wouldn’t you just scan for highlights and key words on the secondary stuff?</p>

<p>Adcoms are trying to find students that fit the school well – not trying to play “got ya!” so they can toss your app in the trash. You’ll be just fine. :)</p>

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<p>Dont worry. As Lorem said, they might not even notice. You’ll be f</p>

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<p>I agree with Bubbles. This shouldn’t be a p</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t do anything at all unless the cut-off sentence included some important information. If it did, I would simply e-mail the admissions office with a correction, which they will either put in your file or ignore because nobody cares.</p>