In my Bryn Mawr ED essay, I accidentally wrote, “I realized a womens college did fail to provide an opportunity; instead it provided millions more.” I meant to say “did not fail.” Am I instantly rejected? Will they notice? I’m so upset and I don’t know what to do please help
<p>I had a typo or two, also. We’re human, that by itself should not hurt your chances at Bryn Mawr.</p>
<p>I know that’s of little comfort, but it really does not matter much at all. Now, if you had many of those it would matter.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Would it help if I sent in an e-mail with the corrected essay? Isn’t it too big of a mistake not to matter? I basically tell them I don’t want to go to their school. I’m so upset.</p>
<p>You proofread it and missed it. You probably had a few other people proofread it—and they missed it too.</p>
<p>Chances are quite good that the admissions people reading that essay will miss it too. It’s the kind of phrasing that makes our mind assume that the “not” is there—even when it isn’t. From the one sentence you gave here, we can tell that it was a well-written essay.</p>
<p>Relax…</p>
<p>yes i agree. and they KNOW you wouldn’t put “failed” instead of “did not fail”. Why would someone write that in an admissions essay? so of course, its ok. </p>
<p>but if you wish to contact them, i don’t see harm in doing it.</p>
<p>If it would make you feel better, re-send the essay; if it is on a separate sheet of paper a secretary in the admissions office can replace the old one with the new one. You might even re-send the whole application–after all, it is way before even the ED deadline and the applications are not yet being reviewed and no one is likely to have look at it yet; it is probabyl just sitting in a file, so you have time to make the correction.</p>