<p>I uploaded my statement of purpose to the Caltech application. But I named the file otherschoolPersonalstatement.doc, where otherschool is another school. (Copied and pasted original word file)</p>
<p>There's no reference to the other school in the personal statement.</p>
<p>Screwed?</p>
<p>Hopefully the grad school doesn't notice or care, and they send hard copies to the department to which I am applying.</p>
<p>If the name of the school you reference in the SOP is Caltech and not some other school, you will be fine. Nobody will care about the name of the document. Most application systems, such as Embark, will simply create a PDF that contains all your application information. The admissions secretary will print this PDF and put it in your file and hand that over to the people making the decisions (presumably a committee composed of professors in your department).</p>
<p>You’re also not entirely screwed if you have another school’s name in the essay. This happened to me with a school I applied to at the last second and didn’t care too much about. I think schools realize such trivial mistakes should not impact an applicant’s file.</p>