<p>OMG......I just found out that I slipped in "Penn" in my Why Northwestern essay and I'm freaaaaaaking out. URGH. Is this really bad? It's just one sentence but...OMG..</p>
<p>Owned...
Hopefully it wasn't the last line...</p>
<p>Contact them and say you sent the wrong essay. They may let you resubmit.</p>
<p>I think that calls for an inevitable rejection. A school would like for you to have basic proofreading skills/common sense.</p>
<p>I'm calling them the first thing in the morning. I'm shaking right now</p>
<p>You definitely showed interest:). anyways.. i hope they will let you resubmit it.</p>
<p>Thanks! I really hope so ;'(</p>
<p>I'm just curious, did you reuse the essay but forget to substitute the names, or was it a slip when typing?</p>
<p>lol dude that sucks, definitely check...</p>
<p>another poster had the same problem on here a few weeks ago..i cant remember the exact name of it but yeah..man</p>
<p>To go off what illuminar said......</p>
<p>For me, if you can write a "Why X?" essay, take out the X, and put in a Y instead, it wasn't a very good essay to begin with, because it obviously wasn't very specific.</p>
<p>honestly i think thats destroys chances, u hurt their ego</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry too much, if your essay overall was great and your other sections of the application are solid, then you have nothing to worry about. I mean during the first week of school where we have to write about the teacher, I'd often confuse the names and my teachers were okay with it. I was never marked off, come on the admissions officers aren't evil nor will they be hurt over something like this.</p>
<p>Yeah but if you can exchange Penn and Northwestern in the same essay, that essay is not specific enough.</p>
<p>Maybe the mistake won't hurt him, but his essay itself might not be the caliber they are looking for.</p>
<p>Would there be a difference between having a different college's name in the title and having a name in the actual content?</p>
<p>That looks AWFUL! If you were an admissions officer who got a why essay out of thousands of applicants and you couldn't even get their school right, then you probably won't be considered as much. It shows you didn't proofread, your why essay is so generic you could use ANY college and it would work, and it just goes against the prompt itself.</p>
<p>OH NO. My essay is totally about Northwestern; not any of this generic crap. (I didn't even recycle my essay!) I just decided to use this one line from Penn's essay and I forgot to change "Penn" to "Northwestern." My essay has some unique stuff written about NU and why want to go to NU but I'm still really anxious :S
I called them this morning and the lady said I have to send an email to their Office of Undergraduate Admissions (so I did). I don't know how long it's gonna take though.</p>
<p>I can relate.
I uploaded an essay on "Explain any felonies" section rather than the supplement. Lol. But I corrected it before submitting, Thank God!</p>
<p>uh oh ..............................</p>
<p>lol mate I think you're a bit doomed, wot? Ah well, there's always next year...</p>
<p>Aw, that made me laugh. But now I'm nervous I've done the same thing.</p>
<p>Tell us how it goes!</p>