<p>On my Princeton essays, I realized that I said "need" instead of where it should say "needs" and also didn't put an article where there should be one. The worst part is, these are on the last two sentences of my essay. Earlier in the essay, I also said "father" where it should say "grandfather," but it's pretty obvious that it should say grandfather from the context of the story. I'm kinda freaking out right now. But I've heard that unless you come across as totally illiterate, it's not so much HOW you write so much as the content and how you come across from that. Will those typos hurt my chances? If this matters, I tried to execute a risky topic for my Princeton essay.</p>
<p>Put yourself in the adcoms shoes. If it were me, and I already like you based on the rest of your application, I’d let it slide–but if I was looking for a reason to push your application into the reject pile and move on, that might push me over.</p>
<p>whatever is done is done, let’s move on …
there is nothing more you can do, you might as well NOT freaking out …</p>
<p>A lot of it is actually in how you write - they’re looking for your voice to come through in your writing, which requires quite a bit of skill.</p>
<p>However, these are - while careless - fairly minor mistakes. I agree with glassesarechic - it all depends on the rest of the application.</p>
<p>In the future, you should proofread before you submit the application, rather than after it’s too late (as at that point you just worry and can’t do anything about it, so it hurts to proofread).</p>
<p>So in other words if I would have otherwise been accepted, they would let it slide, but if i would have been rejected, it just gives them more of a reason to reject.</p>
<p>put it simply, they don’t reject you just because you don’t have perfect grammar, unless you major in English, then an automatic rejection …</p>