<p>Yale is my dream school, and I had written one generic essay which I sent to all my colleges; unfortunately I realised I wrote something like "I'm going to found the Yale XYZ club" in my essay, which I delivered to the other colleges as well. Now, am I dead or what?</p>
<p>I refer you to the “10 Stupid Way to Mess up Your College Application” thread.
You could also try calling the school s and explaining what happened.</p>
<p>It is actually a supplementary personal reflection and I briefly mentioned Yale in one sentence. How will this affect my admission decision?</p>
<p>rejection… It doesn’t seem like you really cared about the other school’s essays and application if you wrote that in every essay.</p>
<p>So what is the best thing to do? Should I e-mail the schools saying that I had the materials mixed up?</p>
<p>they probably havent’ read anything yet, so send in a “corrected copy” most likely they will just swap them out</p>
<p>^ I agree; quickly send them a corrected copy -they probably haven’t looked at your essay</p>
<p>^^^ It’s only a very brief mention of Yale, one sentence. What’s the best way to correct it? Replace “Yale” with the respective colleges, or remove that sentence altogether?</p>
<p>remove sentence</p>
<p>Okay, I am submitting a corrected copy tomorrow. I can’t be rejected every where because of this. I’m hoping for the best.</p>
<p>Wow, what a mistake to make! Lucky you realized what you’d done! Hope it works out for you… :)</p>
<p>Come to think of it, I hope it really isn’t a big deal because a lot of people dream of going to Yale anyway.</p>
<p>on the plus side, you still have a shot at Yale!</p>
<p>Yeah, but everybody else doesn’t care. Every admissions officer cares ONLY about whether you want to attend his or her college. Who cares if it’s a known fact that a lot of people dream of going to Yale? They know that too, but they don’t want to see it in your essay. That’s the way it works; the world is a whole lot more complicated than just the truths. Good thing you realised it, it was really a big big deal.</p>
<p>Every college I e-mailed assured me that they would consider the correct copy instead. That’s somewhat a relief, though I already made a not-so-good impression.</p>
<p>whoops, i think they might still read the original copy though. i hope everything turns out fine for you still.</p>
<p>As long as you timely submit a corrected copy and ask for it to be substituted for the earlier one, it shouldn’t be a problem. Colleges don’t expect that you apply only to one school. I think what gets them annoyed is when applicants don’t correct the error of referencing another school.</p>
<p>I think the main thing is that you were conscientious about the schools you were applying to- not only to realize your error, but to individually call each one and ask about submitting a corrected one.</p>
<p>It could hurt you (if you’re applying to Harvard 
but, seriously, if you have a lot of high level schools)…</p>
<p>It could balance out- mistakes happen, kids apply to other colleges, and you immediately sought to correct it.</p>
<p>Especially with computers, people screw up. If your GC submitted your essay for you (via mail), they could have been the source of error. Maybe the Common Application screwed up and submitted your application to all schools, rather than the ones you checked (personal experience here- they fixed that within a few hours, bug on their end).</p>
<p>I’d trust that they won’t hold it against you, for the most part.</p>
<p>hey I wouldn’t worry about it. My GC accidentally sent my completed Princeton rec forms to Columbia, so this stuff probably does happen all the time. If you’re smart enough to have a shot at Yale, colleges are going to expect you to be applying to several places.</p>
<p>Sorry for the off-topic. But my son wrote a grammatically problematic sentence in a 150 words activity essay. He summited common application electronically. The sentence: “A small start, it gave me the anticipation of successful endeavors.”
Is it a serious problem?</p>