How bad are indentation errors in my college supplemental essay?

MYOS1634
Sun, 17 Jan 2021 11:26:21 +0000

Please DO NOT bother your adcom with an issue of indentation. Do you realize how “small picture” that is? Do you really think that’s the kind of information UChic looks for? Do you think UChic wants to admit a kid who thinks that’s what matters about their essay?
(As for parents, if anything, if your parents had had a hand in it, they would have caught it, so, if anything, it shows they didn’t.)

@annahebert : when adcoms read an essay, and see 2 spaces where they ought to be, they think nothing because good punctuation is expected. If an applicant is from an upper middle class family it’s expected parents will have read over the essay, what matters is that parents didn’t temper with it by adding sentences.
Voice is NOT punctuation.