<p>As the Yale deadline approaches I have been putting off my other applications. Last week, I finally decided to send a couple in. Only today did I realize to my horror that one of my teachers had written "Yale College" twice in his letter for the Common App. We both did not realize it at the time.</p>
<p>I sent that letter to Harvard and Princeton last week.</p>
<p>What should I do? How will this affect the decision?</p>
<p>whoaaaa that sucks…
to be honest, that’s gonna stink alot alot. u still got a chance at yale hehe(look on the bright side)</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think it would be that bad.</p>
<p>Your teacher recs are COMPLETELY out of your control. What your teacher writes and sends should only affect your application in so much as it speaks about you. Something small like mentioning Yale won’t affect you all that much. It would be foolish of both Harvard and Princeton to critique you for applying to Yale. I’m not sure of any concrete statistics, but I’m fairly certain that a majority of students who apply to one of H, Y, or P, also apply to at least one, of not both, of the other two. It would be even more foolish of them to critique you for this, when it was a mistake on your teacher’s part, and not yours.</p>
<p>(The fact that you personally submitted the teacher rec has no importance. They won’t know that.)</p>
<p>You will probably only be held accountable on an unconscious level, so the effect should be negligible.</p>
<p>Is it at all possible to send another copy of the teacher recommendations, with the mistakes corrected, and add another page that explains that it was a typo (and pretend its all from the teacher, meaning the teacher made a mistake, not you)?</p>
<p>^I think that would just draw attention to the fact that Yale was written there for the original letter, pretty much implying the teacher originally wrote it with Yale in mind…either way Harvard and Princeton will know you applied to Yale, but so what, so many applicants apply to all three that it doesn’t really matter that much, as rockermcr pointed out before…</p>
<p>Thanks guys…I feel somewhat better (but still very bad)</p>
<p>Should I take action? Is it wise to ask the teacher to send a note to the admissions office, along with the corrected copy of the letter?</p>
<p>Or should I not bother at all?</p>
<p>I didn’t get to see my teacher recs… They did it online and submitted for every school, so I’m hoping they weren’t careless enough to do that! ahh, now I’m worried.</p>
<p>In the eyes of admissions, you should have no idea what the actual teacher recs say specifically, so you shouldn’t do anything yourself. Your teacher could send a correction, but honestly, I don’t think admissions would expect it as it would be rare for a teacher to go back and look at what they wrote once the rec was sent. They may judge the teacher to be a little careless, but that should have no reflection on you.</p>