<p>so I have no idea if this will ruin my chances....</p>
<p>but after going over my application--i found a mistake. one that i wish i never made.</p>
<p>at the very end of one of my essays i wrote the word Stanford as Standard. Of course, I didn't mess it up the other million times I wrote it, but I did mess it up once. ****</p>
<p>ITS OKAY STOP PANICKING EVERYONE</p>
<p>SPILLED MILK SPILLED MILK. Don’t cry over it. For God’s sake, making these threads just makes everyone more nervous about the decisions themselves…</p>
<p>I’m not sure how carefully they read the essays, but as long as the rest of your application is great I doubt it would destroy your chances. Atleast you didn’t accidentally write another college’s name.</p>
<p>I know of people who messed up Harvard vs. Stanford. I kind of did that too in Harvard interview D: (the sound so similar! I bet they rhyme or something) Sorry about my panicking thread, I feel much better now.</p>
<p>I looked over my application and I have a comma splice!!!</p>
<p>comma splice? oh man, aren’t you screwed. lol</p>
<p>Stanford ADCOM: </p>
<p>“Wow. Impressive applicant.” </p>
<p>“Great stats, superb ECs and leadership with numerous national awards.” </p>
<p>“Wow he must have worked hard in high school. Now let’s see his essays.” </p>
<p>“What? COMMA SPLICE!?” </p>
<p>“No it’s not THAT important. Keep reading.” </p>
<p>“WAAAAT!?!?!? STANDARD? Stanford is NOT Standard. I’m insulted! How could he do this?”</p>
<p>“No way are we going to accept him. We have 30,000 other applicants to look at who don’t have comma splice or who can’t spell Stanford in their essays.” </p>
<p>“Ok. Let’s reject him and move on.”</p>
<p>Some of which is probably commonapp’s fault. I mean there was a word, liaison, in which I fixed so many times with different app versions etc. However, every time when I sent it out the mistake comes back. Plain annoying.</p>
<p>Now serious: Yea I had that same problem. Apparently sometimes Common App’s servers were so overloaded that you couldn’t save anything. It just didn’t record it.</p>
<p>Yeah, hopefully a spelling mistake won’t be that big of a deal.</p>
<p>I mispelled the name of my hometown in one of my essays. haha.</p>
<p>Someone should start a “worse mistakes made in application”, it would be hilarious/depressing to read LOL.</p>
<p>Someone had a long time ago.</p>
<p>I remember some cute ones from that thread though. Like as a joke for her dad, one girl put her dad’s employer as “Me” when he reviewed her app.</p>
<p>…and then forgot to take it off. Must have given the adcoms a nice laugh.</p>
<p>What was the result?</p>
<p>^^haha, someone NEEDS to make that thread.</p>