Typo Woes

Applying to College
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<p>I would like some advice about a couple typos on my common application. In the activities section I misspelled two words, science-sceince and member -memeber, I only noticed today and it has already submitted to all my schools except Harvard. I have seen varying opinions on the subject online and was hoping to get some input from you guys. I read the application over probably more than 100 times before submitting it, but I guess the senior year stress took its toll on my editing capabilities.</p>

<p>Should I bother doing anything? Will this kill any chance of admission to Yale, UPenn or Swarthmore? The common app won't let me modify the main application now that i sent it in for certain schools, should I just send it as-is to Harvard?</p>

<p>Thanks, I'm kinda freakin' out right now</p>

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<p>I would just leave it. When skimming your post, I had to go back to see what you were talking about because I didn’t even notice the spelling mistakes. I’m sure everything else is spelled right and they’ll understand that it was a typo and you are otherwise educated enough to be able to spell correctly :slight_smile: Plus, that’s IF they notice it and with the amount of time they have to read applications, it’s pretty unlikely that they’d see it. If you wrote to them to correct the misspellings, it would only draw their attention to it and you risk sounding petty.</p>

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<p>Yea, but they werre in the titles of activities, which are big and easy to spot</p>

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<p>You will be fine. A spelling mistake will not break your chance at getting into a college. If you already submitted it don’t look at it because you can’t go back to fix it and you will just make yourself crazy. You can create a new version of your common application before you send it to Harvard if you want to fix the mistakes. Look at the help section on the CommonApp to do so.</p>

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<p>You’ll be fine–fix your app your future colleges, and leave it be for those you’ve already submitted. It’s unlikely they’ll notice it, and if they do, it’s unlikely to impact your acceptance/rejection.</p>