<p>Is it true that the essays are more as a way for the adcoms to get a sense of who you are, rather than an assessment of your writing ability?</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
<p>But it is easier to convey who you are if you write well.</p>
<p>So in other words, a few minor typos don’t really hurt you (given that they don’t skew the writer’s intent), but it’s more about the ideas you convey, which will hopefully give more a sense of who you are.</p>
<p>I feel like we are having this convo on two threads :)</p>
<p>I made a couple of silly errors on my Yale EA app and still got in, but in all those cases it was fairly obvious what I intended. So yes, it is about the story/ideas which tells them WHO you are, not so much on how you write it. </p>
<p>But as my previous post notes - less mistakes = clearer communication of who you are. If they are just small typo’s, mis-types (father - grandfather) I am sure it will make no difference.</p>
<p>and what would you say about “tail” instead of “tale”?</p>