Typo in application essay

I submitted my UW application last night and felt so good about it, until I looked through the pdf version and saw that there’s a typo. I swear I read my essay forward and backward hundreds of times, but in one spot I wrote, “ninety-sevenwas…” rather than “ninety-seven was…”. I’m upset to say the least. This might be a dumb question, but how fatal of an error is this? Am I done for?:sob:

You have nothing to worry about.

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You are fine. We all make mistakes. You are human. And as typo goes that’s pretty minor. Good chance the reader won’t even notice. Here’s a typo I did in a legal brief: instead of writing does not, I wrote doe snot. Not a good look. And an example of why not to solely rely on spell checkers. Good luck.

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It happens. To quote a cultural icon: shake it off. Best of luck to you!

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Same thing happened to my kids…they just fixed for the next.

Nothing you can do - you will not be denied to a college due to a typo or two. And this was just a missed space.

No issue at all.

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