For my graded essay, I realized that I had accidentally added a letter to a word while trying to export my essay, which had gotten unnoticed by my spell-checker (thanks a lot, grammarly!).
The word was “read” and became “ready” which makes no sense in the sentence.
When it was graded it was “Read” and not “Ready”
What should I do? Should I email someone? Send in a new essay? Let it go unnoticed?
You should not be changing your graded essay anyway as it is supposed to be a more raw example of what your classwork is like and how your teachers grade. Ultimately there is nothing you can do about it now, but trust me if you don’t get in it won’t be because of this ONE spelling error. Ultimately, I don’t think it would be helpful to send in another essay as schools may already have begun making decisions (maybe even finalizing decisions) and this probably won’t change whatever the outcome is on M9. In my opinion, if you end up sending an email or doing anything to fix it, it will just draw attention to the problem.
My impression was that the graded essay was supposed to be a scanned PDF of a paper that was literally marked on by the teacher, including a grade. The purpose is to (1) see another example of your writing, to compare to your application essays, and (2) get a sense of how easy/hard your teachers grade writing at your school. Submitting a Word document would defeat the “graded” part of the submission, unless you had another means of conveying teacher comments and your grade.
@Altras
My school doesn’t do any hand written essays (mostly on our laptops), my teacher did put comments throughout my essay in a different color. Would this suffice?
I’d suggest whatever mechanism you can use to submit the essay, comments and grade, ideally all together. I suspect that the AO reviewing it would like the simplest way of seeing all of those things all at once. If a teacher inserts comments electronically, submit the commented document file. If it’s Google Docs or another platform that is difficult to export, I’d take a screen shot (or series of screen shots) and submit that.