<p>Recently, I was looking back on my apps (I don’t recommend anyone doing this…it’ll only make you depressed to find inevitable mistakes) and I noticed some technical errors that I made. Some of them were obvious and IMO obnoxious. Here are some examples:</p>
<p>1) On CommonApp activities page for Yale, I used up only 9/10 spaces thinking I used all 10. I then added some more activities on the additional information page…so now there is just a random missing activity for no reason.</p>
<p>2) For the supplementary material sent to Caltech, I added a cover sheet in front of my research paper. I then turned the document into one PDF. Well, when I checked back on how the PDF looked, I noticed that the title of the research paper appears at the bottom of the cover sheet. Whats more, this was a pretty “official” and published document.</p>
<p>3)For Yale, I used the symbol “–” (combined on Word to make a long dash). Well, Yale’s supplement form doesn’t recognize that symbol so where ever it was used, I get a bunch of letters like thus &<em>)$#</em>) indicating error. Woops.</p>
<p>My question is how these technical errors are viewed by the admission councils. None of the content was changed or altered. These mistakes don’t impact what is on the app. However, I admit some of them are rather obnoxious. Will colleges, especially top schools, mark me down for this? Or are the trained to judge based only on content, etc. Ugh. Do you think they will subconsciously judge me as sloppy? I mean, these mistakes are about as easy to make/serious on my part as any typo, but are MUCH more noted. Typos often go unnoticed.</p>
<p>Either way, the only mistake I did was not double checking the print preview/PDF…since most of these mistakes were all made during the technical processes of converting my app to printed version or documents to PDF.</p>