<p>I've just submitted my Common App and supplement to Harvard, and was re-reading the supplement essay for about the fourth time when I noticed that I had made the most egregious spelling mistake ever. I mean, it's obvious that it's just a typo, but I can't believe that I didn't catch it earlier. I must have deleted a letter during one of my final proofreads...
Anyways, does anyone know if there is any way to re-submit the supplement? Will they allow me to do it if I call the admissions office? Please, help, I'm absolutely desperate!</p>
<p>what was the mistake that was so blatant?</p>
<p>You're getting rejected.</p>
<p>newest is joking. don't worry so much about a minor mistake even if it seems so obvious to you. I spelled riding "ridding" and your "you" and still got accepted to the University of Chicago early action. most admissions counselors don't have that much time to spend on one essay, so they won't care too much about a single error. resending your essay will cause them inconvenience and make you look desperate.</p>
<p>unfortunately harvard has the "No typo-licy".</p>
<p>its pretty self explanatory =</p>
<p>If you had to read it 4 times and you were actually looking for every error on earth how many times do you think they will have to read it to catch it</p>
<p>I highly doubt anyone sits there with a red pen going "spelling error here, wrong punctuation there"</p>
<p>they want to see who you are, and one tiny typo makes you human.</p>
<p>If you wrote To instead of TOO no one will catch that from a light read.</p>
<p>i don't' know if you could do this, but i know you can at some colleges.</p>
<p>call them and tell them. at some they let to resend the fixed essay, but via postal mail. if it bothers you that much (i can understand why because i've made tons of typos), you should call. and you still have time. </p>
<p>regardless, it would be dumb for them to just reject you because of a typo. don't worry!</p>
<p>Iono man..if the typo was like changing "Skill Club" to "Kill Club" just email them to make the correction..
if it's something like "basketball" to "basketbal" i really don't think it'll matter..</p>
<p>The typo is fat instead of fate. I'll still try calling them, though...see what I can do. Too bad they won't be there for the next three days.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the support, guys!</p>
<p>lol kill club... good one</p>
<p>Did u write some thing like:</p>
<p>[I have a lot of fat]
as opposed to:
[I have a lot of fate]</p>
<p>because that would be hilarious</p>
<p>LOL. </p>
<p>I say, keep the typo. =P</p>
<p>"I am very pessimistic about how my fate/fat will affect my life..."</p>
<p>I say let it slide. </p>
<p>Going the route of sending in a correction calls too much attention to yourself and to the damn typo. </p>
<p>At the end of the day, whether you get into H or not IS NOT going to rest on a typo.</p>
<p>This is why I refuse to read over/ let anyone else read over the college essays that I've already submitted.</p>
<p>I know a guy who purposely misspelled every other word on his harvard essay, and what do you know he got called up by one of the admissions officers and they told him that his unique approach to the essay had gotten him in!!!</p>
<p>just kidding don't sweat it</p>
<p>Well, I opened my essay to a very presitgious school with a well-fitting quote. It wasn't a famous quote, though, and I had found it by doing a keyword search for a topic and then confirming the quote with several sources. The problem was, because I had been looking for a topic and not an author, I was unfamiliar with the author, and when I typed his name into the opening sentence of my essay... I combined the names of two people whose quotes I had been looking at into one name, and attributed the quote to this made-up person. Lovely.</p>
<p>I wouldn't call undo attention to the error. And, like I learned: NEVER re-read essays after they are sent!</p>