<p>My daughter received an email from the Admissions Office of a private university that she applied to RD. The subject line of the email: "Complete Noticication - Regular Decision Applicant". I know everyone makes mistakes, but I would like to think that admissions offices would be working VERY hard to make only good impressions when it comes to prospective students. I am planning to pay a lot for this COLLEGE education. Have you ever had a similar error that made you question a school's suitability?</p>
<p>A typo in an admissions e-mail would not cause me to question the school’s suitability. I think that is a bit extreme.</p>
<p>I’ve been corresponding regularly with the director of admissions at a grad school that I was recently accepted to. The typos in his emails are almost glaring. What has it taught me? The guy has a hard time typing. Nothing about the school or anything of the sort.</p>
<p>There are worse errors. One prominent LAC lost my Dd’s test scores and she had to request the College Board resend them. Then they found them the day she sent the copies.
Yale misplaced one of my Dd’s teacher’s recs twice. The second time, the teacher faxed the original letter in with bold handwriting across the bottom indicating what a loss it would be to the school if Dd were not admitted. I think the teacher was a bit annoyed. ( I feel I can name this school because said Dd wound up attending, in spite of their seeming disorganization.)
I can put up with an email typo. But when you’re in the middle of the admissions process and things get messed up on their end that might affect your admission, it’s pretty upsetting.<br>
From my experience with two graduated kids, the admissions offices are not really representative of the school as a whole.</p>
<p>No biggie. The secretary is probably sending out a ton of emails and the f is near the c on the keyboard and there is probably no spellcheck on the subject line. I can think of more egregious errors.</p>
<p>Every professor/department head I’ve emailed (outside of my own) has responded in all lower case letters. ALL. It’s strange, but it also makes me laugh.</p>
<p>Many colleges use students in their Admissions Office, all on Work Study Jobs.
So misspellings in an email should not be a concern.</p>
<p>Believe me, there have been far bigger admissions errors, such as sending acceptances accidentally or to the wrong list of students, etc. A typo is quite forgivable (this coming from someone who makes a million of 'em)</p>
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If the college’s students can’t spell, what does that say about the college?</p>
<p>^^nothing…</p>
<p>*Noticication *is clearly a typo, and not a spelling error, and this was an email, not an acceptance or rejection letter.</p>
<p>I’m pretty judgy about this kind of thing, but even I wouldn’t “question a school’s suitability” over a typo in an email. [NOTE: I just had to edit my post here to fix a typo. No foolin’.]</p>
<p>It tells you they’re still learning - they’re students. Realistically it doesn’t tell you anything, my middle D is very intelligent, but couldn’t spell if her life depended on it. That is the type of error that is easy to miss when checking your own work - even when proofreading other people’s work you sometimes read what you expect, even when it’s wrong. Moreso for strong readers vs. weaker readers who actually look at every letter.</p>
<p>Some people are bad spellers and are bad spellers throughout their life!
Probably never won a spelling bee in elementary school, middle school etc. </p>
<p>Not everything has “spell check” either!</p>
<p>That would actually annoy the crap out of me too!</p>
<p>Bad spellers of the world untie!!</p>
<p>I agree, it is utterly dissgusting.</p>
<p>People are equating good spelling with intelligence-just not the case…I could forward you an email from my Dad but you wouldn’t be able to read it. He is a Mensa member and you probably use items he has invented or helped invent on a daily basis…</p>
<p>We had an admissions letter mailed to us once from a private middle school, and the whole letter was printed UPSIDE-DOWN on the letterhead paper!! That didn’t instill a lot of confidence!</p>
<p>Wolverine86 - LOL! That was funny!</p>
<p>There were a few typos in my admissions letter from a certain UK university. I wasn’t considering going there very seriously (2 applications in the UK cost the same as and take exactly as much work as 5), but the typos and the fact that they accepted me mere days after I applied made me somewhat worried.</p>
<p>Oh soregum. :-)</p>