Typos at northwestern eassy :( what should I do

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Hello ,

I have just submitted my NU application and I just found that I have three typos all concentrated in the same first paragraph

I have always appreciated those in white coats, yet my left-brain has always craved numbers, circuits and algorithms. This long-lasting tension between those engineering and medicine that has always accompanied me was resolved when I investigated a transfer learning strategy for training neural networks that diagnoses COVID-19 for my Extended Essay. Only in Northwestern, I believe that [I missing here]would grow to pursue my direction of harassing electrical engineering in medicine.

I am panicking because the rest of the easy is great and I spent one week on it. Should I contact admission for resubmission? I don’t know what to do

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I’m not sure- do you have a college counselor at school to ask? If you are to revise this, even for another application, do you think the word harassing should be harnessing? Should it be “applying electrical engineering to medicine”?

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I am not sure I understand what you wrote.

You can email the regional rep. Say you mistakenly submitted the copy that wasn’t your final draft. Be brief. Attach the corrected version. That’s the best you can hope for.

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is it totally incomprehensible?

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Strategy diagnoses. That’s correct. Harassing should be harnessing, though, yes?

I agree there is some confusion overall. However, I think I’d let it lie. AOs read quickly, and it’s probably not worth calling attention to it.

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I agree to talk with your HS GC and/or email the AO an updated version.

In addition to the other commen, I don’t understand what ‘extended essay’ means in context.

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In my opinion, you may want to pay more attention to your content in your future writing than relatively easy-to-fix typographical mistakes. In your first sentence, for example, “white coats” themselves connote a left-brain emphasis, so the transition using “yet” doesn’t appear logical. And, candidly, things don’t become much clearer from there.

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Not clear to me, either.

But what does come through is that you think, have considered (something,) and are enthusiastic. That might be good enough. Could be. We can’t know, for sure. Adcoms can translate all sorts of things. When kids don’t make mistakes, sometimes the system’s download messes up some words, anyway. But yes, see what you can do to get this fixed.

What’s “those engineering” supposed to be? Plain old “engineering?” What’s wrong with “diagnoses” (it could refer to a “strategy
that diagnoses” or “the networks that diagnose.” I don’t know and suspect most adcoms wouldn’t flag it as an error- they aren’t stem profs.) And what’s supposed to be in the missing space?

And yes, harnassing, not harrassing.

I do think the right-brain reference may be to the people aspects of medicine.

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That’s also what confused me.