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12-31-2007, 07:24 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 43
| Brown made a boo boo
Has anyone else noticed that Brown misspelled the major "commerce organizations and entrepreneurship" (as "entreprepeneurship") on their application? It's pretty hilarious. I kind of lost respect for them. | 
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12-31-2007, 07:45 PM
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#2 | | Super Moderator
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| You lost respect for Brown for a typo?
I've seen typos on official documents at all levels. It happens. | |
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12-31-2007, 08:39 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 43
| Hmm. I didn't know that. I thought my hopes for getting accepted were lost because I mis-typed my ACT English/Writing combined score as a 33 rather than a 32. Guess they don't have grounds for rejecting me because of that now do they, considering the fact that they made a bigger mistake themselves? lol. Good. | |
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12-31-2007, 08:49 PM
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#4 | | Super Moderator
Join Date: Apr 2005
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| A single typo is never going to be a deal breaker for admissions.
Did you honestly expect that Brown, run by humans, would never have typos, though? | |
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12-31-2007, 10:53 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Northwestern
Posts: 602
| I've seen typos on half my applications. | |
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12-31-2007, 10:57 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
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Posts: 112
| Considering they put "entrepeneurship", and not "entreprepeneurship", as you said, you made a typo yourself.
lol? It's not a big deal, I don't hate you for it. Why hate them? | |
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01-01-2008, 02:33 AM
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#7 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
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| I'm glad you don't hate me (above).
I never said I HATED Brown. After all, I AM applying there. I just hadn't seen a mistake like that before on any of my other applications, so it caught me off-guard. I recognize that they are humans, but they're a group of humans that represent a renowned university. In all truth, there's a difference between my making a mistake and their making a mistake.
Nevertheless, I still LIKE Brown, and I certainly don't hold a GRUDGE against them. And I apologize for and DETRACT the "loss of respect" statement. That was a little histrionic/hyperbolic on my part.
*Cough* Anyways... | |
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01-01-2008, 10:53 AM
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#8 | | Junior Member
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| cornell misspelled mathematical on their supplement | |
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01-01-2008, 02:34 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
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| Cornell and Brown did not make these mistakes. People working there did. I'm sure as students we'd all prefer if colleges spent money on us rather than world class secretaries. | |
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01-01-2008, 02:38 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wellesley 2012!
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| It's kind of nice, shows that they're human and also make mistakes. Yeah I noticed a typo for the Part I introduction I think, but didn't pay too much attention to it because I was making sure that MY essays didn't have any typos. xD | |
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01-01-2008, 03:49 PM
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#11 | | Member
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| lol, xerxes300, you're a little bit of a mess. | |
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01-01-2008, 06:26 PM
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#12 | | Junior Member
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| I think it's kind of cute. and if you say the typo out loud it's really funny. | |
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01-01-2008, 09:49 PM
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| Yes, I know I'm a mess.. but a HOT one at that. | |
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01-01-2008, 10:16 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
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| O and I realized I made another typo even though my dad and everyone looked over my application. Apparently I think unparalleled is spelled unparalled. Wow, this is super ironic and kind of funny in a sick and twisted way!!!! This is pretty much the best thread ever, people!!!! | |
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01-02-2008, 08:46 PM
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#15 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Los Angeles
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| OH no biggie, I had about 3 typos in my Michigan essays. Meh. | |
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