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01-11-2008, 01:58 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| excellent and original essay, 1 grammar error?
That I forgot to catch before sending out?
It's the omission of a "to" for a required infinitive. The essay was some of my best writing ever, but how much would this marr the essay in terms of chances?
Does it reflect really badly on you if you apparently didn't manage to completely proofread? | 
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01-11-2008, 02:00 AM
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#2 | | Junior Member
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| WHAT! YOU MESSED UP! Do you have a community college near you? Hope so....
(Remember, unless you are applying for a scholarship, your essay will not be scrutinized with such an eye for grammatical detail) | |
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01-11-2008, 02:00 AM
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#3 | | Junior Member
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| Hey, it is just one error. I think you'll be fine! You sound intelligent, and if the essay is a good read they probably won't notice the mistake. Don't worry, be happy. | |
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01-11-2008, 06:57 AM
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#4 | | Junior Member
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| (It's the omission of a "to" for a required infinitive)
LOL...I'm going to be an English Major, I was a writing tutor in my college's English Center, I consistently received A's in all my advanced English courses and I got accepted into NYU CAS for the Spring and I barely understand what you're talking about,lol... No one is going to care that you missed one thingy for the infinitive whatever.... hehe ;-) - You'll be fine. | |
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01-11-2008, 07:34 AM
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| yea, whatever. i had a [edited out for language] essay and it had to harbour a few mistakes here and there. and i'm rather apathetic about it. hmm. maybe not.
well, apps are out. nothing one can change. but really, just pray that the merits are spectacularly blinding enough.
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01-11-2008, 12:24 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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| Part of the reason for my fear is that I have written in British English throughout all my essays, and thus I use spelling conventions that when combined with my single error might be interpreted as very proliferate errors ... | |
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01-11-2008, 12:34 PM
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| you misspelled mar...oh noes! ; ) don't sweat it.
No college
1.has such fine, paper-thin difference between candidates that an omission of 'to' makes a difference...
2.has an admissions committee that has such time/memory on their hands that they recall the mistake. i'm sure i read they read the essays before discussing em? .....one typo?the average is probably 3-5. | |
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01-11-2008, 01:07 PM
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| Stop obsessing, if anything, stop putting your essay on a pedestal. In the large scheme, it is highly unlikely that you had an excellent and original essay...if you are concerned about small things like this, chances are your essay is neither. | |
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01-11-2008, 06:21 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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| No, I wonder if it's supposed to be grammatically perfect. As far as I know, in many university grading schemes for political science papers, having more than two grammatical errors makes an F.
Of course, it would be imprudent for me to judge my own essay as excellent and original, but I meant to ask a case wondering that even in the best case I would have a severe disadvantage. I wrote my essay on being interrogated by my country's authoritarian government, which doesn't respect free speech, and on how I had boasted to my friends that the authorities had interrogated me for hours -- without telling them that I had been free to leave much earlier. (I stayed that long because I kept on wanting to convince the officers that the laws curtailing political speech were unjust and abusive -- I was 14 then.) | |
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