Typos... fml - Page 3

surfwakesnow165 · 11-02-2009, 10:08 AM

No they haven't. The only reason I sent them the email was because the sentence may not make sense... I said my "fatigued boy" when i really mean to say "my fatigued body"...its annoying because its one stupid letter..but if they dont respond theyll be able to figure out that i meant "body" in the context of the sentence.

CUAmbassador11 · 11-02-2009, 10:35 AM

the admissions office will not accept revisions for ED.

SAT2350 · 11-02-2009, 02:21 PM

I made some typos in my common app. short answer......fml...

honorstudent · 11-02-2009, 02:58 PM

Ok so the admissions office told me that I can fax them a revised version but a few grammatcial/spelling mistakes will not compromise my application. Should I send it? It'd give me peace of mind as I've been totally freaking out but then they'll think I'm anal? Blahhh. What should I do?

surfwakesnow165 · 11-02-2009, 03:15 PM

How did you contact the admissions office? What college are you applying to?

gomestar · 11-02-2009, 05:35 PM

if your essay is 1000 words, then I wouldn't worry about a single error past word 500. Most of the adcoms I knew didn't read beyond word 501 in the first place so they wont even notice.

honorstudent · 11-02-2009, 06:55 PM

^I have an error in the first paragraph "my" instead of "me." And they don't?! Later on is the depth of my essay! Blah

CUAmbassador11 · 11-02-2009, 07:18 PM

hs, what is done is done. you really cant change anything. there is no benefit to you to freak out now. the only thing you can do now is wait, and to make sure that you dont make anymore mistakes on any of your other applications. did you do your ED application at the last minute? maybe that's why you made mistakes if you were rushing to get it in exactly on the deadline

and a 1000 word essay? thats long for a common app. like wayyyy too long

honorstudent · 11-02-2009, 07:26 PM

^I just found another mistake! Showed instead of shown. And I actually wrote my common app essay in July. What had happened was that my computer had crashed on the 30th, losing all my data so I had to retype my essay on Halloween. I didn't have anyone who could read it since it was Halloween night and of course you miss your own typos/mistakes when reading your own work since you mentally correct them subconsciously since you know what's coming next.

shuaishuaishuai · 11-02-2009, 08:11 PM

"Most of the adcoms I knew didn't read beyond word 501 in the first place so they wont even notice. "

Gomestar- i hope you are exaggerating a little. I know 1000 words are a little excessive. But how would the adcoms know the difference between the 500 words mark and the 550 words mark?

honorstudent- just send it if it makes you feel better. Stop stressing over it.

honorstudent · 11-02-2009, 08:12 PM

^'Kay it's sent.... now I'm afraid it'll draw negative attention to my app, there's no way I can win!

BartleDoo · 11-02-2009, 08:49 PM

@honorstudent
I can understand why you are anxious but why are you putting yourself down over it. Obviously you should have thoroughly checked your paper or even have gotten a parent to take one last look at it before you sent your application. You're obviously demoralizing yourself to get people to tell you "it's all right". IMO, I view the fact that there are typos very negatively, but there is simply nothing you can do about it.

honorstudent · 11-02-2009, 09:00 PM

^Yes, I know. But like I've said, my computer crashed last minute and had to retype them without anyone to help me check them. I'm just really disappointed at the timing of the crash b/c I seriously wrote my essay in July. The mistakes aren't huge, huge I suppose but my question is just whether or not sending in a revision will be looked upon even more negatively although they emailed me saying I could and that the errors would not "compromise my decision." I just truly hate myself for not spotting them.

gomestar · 11-03-2009, 09:38 AM

"Gomestar- i hope you are exaggerating a little. I know 1000 words are a little excessive. But how would the adcoms know the difference between the 500 words mark and the 550 words mark?"

This is generally the policy at many top universities. Adcoms are extremely swamped and can't afford to spend twice the amount of time on one essay over the other because a student ignored the instructions. That little bit of extra time per essay really adds up when you have 35,000 students. And in ILR for instance, each essay is read by 3 adcoms and then 3 professors. You can see what happens to the deadlines when this happens.

How do they know? In a standard font (10 or 12 or something), 500 words is 2 pages double spaced and one page single spaced. It's much harder tell on printed paper, but with the budget cuts I doubt anybody is really printing stuff off. It's easy enough to do a count on the computer for 500 words. Each individual adcom is different when it comes to leeway (500 vs. 519), but some are no-nonsense on 500.

poetgrl · 11-03-2009, 09:45 AM

honorstudent-- Now that you have submitted the copyedited version of the essay, let it go. You can not do anything else, and the main thing will be your stats. The essay, by the time you have the stats to apply to Cornell, is not to be able to tell if you can spell or put a comma in the right place, this is assumed, the essay is to get to know you as a person. Hopefully you got this personality part in there.

Regardless, it isn't going to help to worry. It's out of your hands now and you might as well just get on with the business of living. I sincerely hope you are accepted, as you truly are someone who wants to go to Cornell.