<p>GOD KILL ME
I was re-reading my essay just to make sure if it is fine to re-use for other college applications (:P) but.. I found a typo.. oh god.. why do you do this to me.. I typed 'then' instead of 'than' S)*&)& I think they are going to catch up this..(admission committee i meant) </p>
<p>Do you think its going to completely ruin my chance? god. /.god... omg.. want to cry..dufIZJUPE<em>U%)#</em>%)$&%)*%)$&%($ grrrrrrrrr</p>
<p>ps_ I am an ED applicant btw</p>
<p>they will not care</p>
<p>I'm not going to lie. I'm a first-year here, and during orientation, my Dean told his advisees that when the readers read through the essays, grammar mistakes took people out the running immediately. It's only one, so it shouldn't be that big of a deal, but for your other apps, read through your essay carefully.</p>
<p>The previous poster is correct. One mistake could sink you unless you're a very strong candidate.</p>
<p>but it's just one word on the essay. then vs. than. Dodam don't worry one mistake on your application will not override your gpa, recs, the point of your essay, SAT 1's and 2's, ec's, talents, and your character. if you did not make repeated mistakes you should not have to worry.</p>
<p>I would agree with you yanks, but they might see it as a sign that you didn't spend enough time on the application (even though I'm sure that you did Dodam)...</p>
<p>You're fighting human nature. A glaring typo sends bad signals and is an excuse to trash an app when there are 20,000 apps with similar scores/recs/essays/etc.</p>
<p>i scrwed up too. I put them instead of the
Oh well, guess i'm alreeady rejected.
BTW, columbia2002, do u work at the admissions office? U seem to know a lot</p>
<p>The admissions people are not editing your essays. The kind of typo you are talking about could easily go unnoticed in the flow of reading the essay as we often read what is supposed to be there. I wouldn't exactly call it a glaring mistake. Don't worry about it.</p>
<p>Yesterday, I asked my friends to read my essay and tell me if they saw any errors, but they said 'no'. Maybe because its in the middle of the sentence and not easy to notice. </p>
<p>only my hope now is they do not recognize it</p>
<p>thanks everyone.</p>
<p>My favorite typo was the one where an applicant in her essay "why I want to go to Harvard" had failed to take out Brown and put in Harvard as the school she was dying to attend. Spell check and grammar check won't pick up that kind of typo. She got in anyway.</p>
<p>That's an urban legend, and that sort of thing happens all the time. Does Harvard even ask a "why Harvard?" question?</p>
<p>uh-oh!! i found a tiny typo in mine too, i made three people read it and no one noticed! i am definately getting rejected :(((</p>
<p>actually i was just going through the oxford dictionary (ok i am a little obsessive) and the error i made was actually not an error since the word i used is used in british english (which is what i learned in school) and not that much in american english. i am going crazy</p>
<p>Columbia2002, that particular urban legend was told by the Adcom who gave the info session we attended at Harvard. Maybe he was just trying to scare everyone into proofing their app.s. </p>
<p>LoveColumbia, was "definately" the typo from your essay?</p>
<p>its not a very scary story if the girl still ended up at harvard</p>
<p>no learnt(british) instead of learned</p>
<p>lol I used learnt too, but word auto corrected it to learned so I left it as learned</p>
<p>Wow, this thread is really the apex of paranoia surrounding the admissions process. Everyone needs to take a deep breath and relax. Seriously, what's the worst that can happen in the admissions process? They reject you? So what -- hopefully your list of colleges you're applying to reflects a true love for each campus. One of those campuses is bound to love to have you there.</p>