<p>Just realized I had a typo in my Common App Essay and my Short Answer for Stanford's Supplement. I should have proofread a lot more carefully. Does anyone know how Stanford will view my mistakes?</p>
<p>Pretty sure no one is going to care about one typo.</p>
<p>I’ve heard several accepted students say that they had at least a couple typos in their essays, so I think you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>relax. just relax. adcom ppl are human beings too 
^ yeah, i caught 2 in my common app essay after i submitted</p>
<p>It might depend on the typo. There’s a chance the adcom won’t even notice it (like when there are two words repeated and almost no one notices). </p>
<p>One typo? An honest mistake. Two typos? That is becoming borderline incompetent, which is never what you want to convey. This is a great lesson to learn. You may have something really fantastic to say, but if there are multiple typos and grammatical mistakes someone will just assume that you didn’t care. I once got a grade on a paper raised because I proved to the TA that I didn’t make two grammatical mistakes.</p>
<p>It sucks, because often when you go to revise something, you maybe don’t revise something associated with that revision that should have been changed. Like if I had a sentence “The student body does not care if it gets free cable” then wanted to change the phrase “student body” to “students” and make them verb plural, I am left with “The students do not care if it gets free cable.” This can happen easily with a final revision, so it’s super important to have a final reading where you change nothing.</p>
<p>Yeah as long as there aren’t several blaring mistakes I wouldn’t worry about it. My common app essay had a random “and” thrown in which made the sentence pretty confusing actually. I did what Senior0991 advised against and made some last minute revisions without proofreading again. Oops. But it and all worked out so don’t stress. ;)</p>