<p>I asked a teacher to do a recommendation for all my common app schools, including Rochester, Cornell, Princeton, and Harvard. Since Rochester needed to be sent in by December 1st, the teacher did that rec first. For Cornell, Princeton, and Harvard, the heading was just changed to Dear blah blah blah of (Insert one of those Ivies). In about the third paragraph, the last sentence STILL read as, "This is why he is well-qualified for University of Rochester." I wasn't allowed to read the rec until after it was sent in, but the evaluation was one of the best I have read. Will this hurt my chances at Cornell a lot?</p>
<p>lol........just lol it</p>
<p>I did the same thing on an essay I wrote for Columbia. I reused a Cornell essay and at the end I forgot to change the "This is why Cornell is the school for me blah blah". I still got into Columbia, so they prob don't even read that stuff.</p>
<p>colleges don't like to see that, but it's not the end of the world...</p>
<p>firey pit of rejection</p>
<p>Haha. I'm just an average candidate, probably borderline (with SAT, GPA, and EC's), so I'm just hoping that this incident doesn't tip the scale towards the rejection pile.</p>
<p>see above.</p>
<p>Failure to modify everything in a rec letter reflects on the writer, not the student. By the same token, failure to update everything in a personal essay DOES reflect on the student.</p>
<p>Adcoms are fully aware that essays and rec letters are used for multiple applications, and probably just chuckle at the faux pas as they move on to the next letter or essay.</p>
<p>You're ok. . .it doesn't reflect badly on you. It just suggests that your guidence councellor is a very busy person, and didn't have time to go through and catch the mistake.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people put the wrong college name in their essays, which was why I was very careful never to use the specific name of the college in my essay. I figured the essay is about me, so I just focused about my experiences and left it at that.</p>
<p>The only school I think that might care if you messed up. . . .In a essay to Boston University do not write "I feel that Boston <em>College</em> is a great fit for my academic interests and personality". </p>
<p>People were joking about that at Admissions at BU, but they didn't seem to take it too lightly.</p>
<p>^ I know. Mentioning BC, football, etc in your BU essays = painful death, so says my friend's dad who's a prof. at BU.</p>