<p>So I just submitted my application. I review it afterwards, and I find, on my supplement essay, a glaring typo. </p>
<p>It is a comma which isn't supposed to be there. </p>
<p>I'm serious, I know it's a ridiculously minor thing to be so worried about, but its nagging and nagging me. </p>
<p>How much bearing will this have, do you think?</p>
<p>A misplaced comma is reason enough to reject you from any institution you may apply. Better luck next year.</p>
<p>An isolated typographical error that does not render your intended meaning ambiguous will not hurt your chances very much if at all. </p>
<p>The only errors that really hurt people are using the wrong school name or having a clearly deficient grasp of grammar.</p>
<p>Relax. It won’t matter a bit, unless you wrote Ya,le.</p>
<p>Or worse, Y’ale</p>
<p>Or worse still, H’arv,ard.</p>