<p>So I printed out my UC Application after I submitted it so I could easily transfer information to commonapp and I notice in one of my descriptions for my community service activities I had a few typos. I was entering it in on my school's computer and the keyboard is kind of screwy so I am going to blame that. Anyways, I was wondering if it is crucial that I contact admissions and say what had happened. If you are curious of what the typos are, here you go:</p>
<p>"I tutored my peers in Biology, Chemistry, English, ALGERBRA, TRIGNOMETRY, Spanish, and CALUCLUS after school in my free time."</p>
<p>Of course, the typos are in the description of my Tutoring Center work, so it will look even worse. </p>
<p>That’s pretty bad, and honestly, it just makes you look careless. It doesn’t matter if your keyboard was funky… you should have noticed the typos and corrected them. You can’t really call up and expect that pointing out the typos will fix anything, though. Also, only Spanish and English should be capitalized there…</p>
<p>Ouch yeah. Not anything to do. It’s not too important, just a tad careless. Especially as you tutor English I wouldn’t worry about it; there’s nothing to do now. E-mailing will only draw attention to it, while they read so many apps that they may not notice.</p>
<p>yeah I don’t know I typed it up at school and the keyboard was broken. They were the only typos on the application though, but it still kind of sucks. would they not accept me just because of that?</p>
<p>It matters. Especially if you are applying to very competitive UCs. They get so many applications, they are just looking for reasons to reject people.</p>
<p>I really wouldn’t worry about it. If I were just reading your description (and you hadn’t capitalized mistakes) I doubt I would notice, especially if reading 100 application a day. There are no letters that don’t really belong (just out-of-order). They accept or reject people based on grades, scores, extracurriculars, and essays. Not because of a few silly typos.</p>
<p>^ thank you so much. that really calmed me down and I talked to some other people and they agreed. Don’t worry, I didn’t capitalize mistakes haha. I’m just lucky they were only in the descriptions of my activities and not my personal statement because I just proofread them and they are spotless I can’t do anything about it now, so I can just hope for the best</p>
<p>^ Yeah I know and that’s what is haunting me right now. If I just would have waited a bit longer I could have caught them, but I wanted the stressing to be over so I submitted them. Ironically, I’m stressing even more now. It’s just weird because I reread my application along with my parents, and my cousin who is a high school counselor and none of us caught it until I was transferring information to my commonapp</p>
<p>Please don’t stress! If the typos were sprinkled throughout your entire app, then that would cause me some concern… but because they are all in one sentence, it just appears you rushed a bit and didn’t catch your mistake. It’s ok! You WILL NOT be rejected from a college based on this alone.</p>
<p>Thanks! Yeah they were all in the same sentence except I forgot the word “about” in another description of my activities, but if you read over it quickly then you don’t even notice. Luckily, there are absolutley none in my essays and I have a 33 on the ACT and 4.1 GPA so hopefully they will look at those and the quality of my extra curriculars before the descriptions of the ECs haha. At least this is a lesson learned for when I complete my CommonApp schools</p>
I wouldn’t worry about it; there’s nothing to do now. E-mailing will only draw attention to it, while they read so many apps that they may not notice.</p>