<p>I applied to Duke, Cornell, and Boston College yesterday. I reread my application essay over and over, but when I reread it today, I found out that there was a fragment. A major fragment. </p>
<p>"I was nervous. But my willingness to perform threw anxiety out of the picture" </p>
<p>I made an alternate version on the common app for NYU and Yale.-luckily I hadnt applied to those yet. </p>
<p>I am just so upset that I didnt notice the mistake after reading it over and over. I am so scared that it will jeopardize my chances of getting in, because I really want to go to Cornell. I went there for summer college and I hope that will help me a little bit... </p>
<p>After I found that mistake, I just feel ...i dont know...crappy. I think its also because I have read it so much that I am sick of my essay!</p>
<p>yeah calm down - it’ll be FINE. i stared at it for a few seconds going “why is this so glaringly bad?” before I figured it out. it’s likely adcoms wont even notice
calm down breathe. you’ll be okay :)</p>
<p>It’s not going to matter. One of my essays was entirely fragmented/run ons because it was a sort of humorous list of facts. (A tell us more about yourself essay). One was written as if I was a Scientific observer collecting a specimen for the college (so the style was very strange, but humorous), all of them used what I like to call ‘real’ English. The kind of English where, yes, sentences CAN start with the word ‘And’ or ‘Because’. </p>
<p>It’s a stylistic choice to write a fragment like that, and therefore, not a problem.</p>
<p>MANY famous writers wrote fragments all the time.</p>
