<p>Oh my goodness, so I submitted in my UC apps (UCLA and Berkeley) and while I was reviewing my essays online, there were no discrepancies. However, once I submitted in my app, on my second essay "a??" has replaced all of my apostrophes...there are about 10 of them...so it's not even a tiny error you could overlook...however, as mentioned, this was not present at the time I was writing this, so should I email a UC rep about this? Will they take this into consideration? Or are there too many students with whom they'll be bothered with anyway? Are my chances of getting into these colleges absolutely ruined? Oh my goodness...</p>
<p>Because it happened on all of your apostrophes, it will be clear that it is a formatting issue rather than a typo and I sincerely doubt that it will have any negative impact. I think that you are right, there are probably many with the same glitch and it won’t even be an issue.</p>
<p>^I really, really hope so. I don’t want that to be another reason for them to turn me down…I realized the mistake I made: I assumed that if we were typing into the application, then we would not need to convert the text to ASCII, only if we were copying/pasting from Word. Turns out you have to convert to ASCII regardless of where you typed it, so I’m thinking…why don’t they just convert it for us!?? Thanks, alamemom. :)</p>
<p>This has been happening to everyone I’ve talked to, when I submitted my app that happened to me. Don’t worry about it, this won’t affect your chances.</p>
<p>OMG THIS HAPPENED TO ME TOO. I just started a thread about this before I saw this one. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1584649-urgent-situation-uc-additional-comments-formatting-error.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1584649-urgent-situation-uc-additional-comments-formatting-error.html</a></p>
<p>Hopefully this doesnt hurt our chances :(.</p>
<p>@wolverines14 and @Shacklez THANK YOU! Wow that makes me feel better! I really hope though that the typo won’t be so annoying that they’ll automatically reject…aw man.</p>
<p>I applied to UCLA and Berkeley and there was a verified information section that I had to verify before paying and I accidentally chose “Yes” to being Hispanic/Latino when I’m really not. And now I can’t edit it because it’s in the “verified information section.” I read that if I give incorrect information then it’ll be an easy grounds for rejection…I shot them an email to correct myself but because of their overflow I probably won’t be hearing soon so…how will this jeopardize my admissions!? I feel so irresponsible right now… :(</p>
<p>After viewing my application online, I have realized that I have made a big mistake: I misunderstood the “verified information” section when it asked about the State of Legal Residence. My parents and I both live and have lived out of state for the past 15 years. I mistakenly took the question to ask whether we had ever been present in California, regardless of residency. However, since this is in the “verified information” section, I cannot edit it. I emailed UC (again…wow) and am wondering how this will jeopardize my chance of admission?</p>
<p>Loricg, you are so sweet and insightful…really, thanks for your strong points made. :)</p>
<p>Ahh, thanks Loricg! I feel much more relieved now. :)</p>
<p>I just read another thread where you stated you accidentally marked Hispanic on your application as a typo. Now this thread you accidentally marked resident when you are not. I am not sure you will get away these two “typos” on your application, it could sound more like you had second thoughts about the consequences of lying on your apps or, at the least, you didn’t care enough to proof read your app before you verified it.</p>
<p>Just saw this on an official document on the UC website: </p>
<p>“Grammatical and spelling errors, although they do not count against an applicant…”</p>
<p>see: <a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/files/presenting-yourself-uc-application-freshman.pdf[/url]”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/files/presenting-yourself-uc-application-freshman.pdf</a></p>
<p>seems like no need to worry :-)</p>