How bad are indentation errors in my college supplemental essay?

lookingforward
Sun, 17 Jan 2021 11:51:14 +0000

@annahebert I agree you’re obsessing over nothing. And that it can be dangerous advice to this OP.

Plenty of errors happen in the download itself. Most often, formatting and wacky characters inserted. (Not common anymore, but it happens.) Adcoms can read through these. They aren’t playing junior detective or guessing that, OMG! The parent wrote this.

But if you bug them unnecessarily or fret over the wrong minutiae, you can bet they’ll wonder about your app.

NO, you DO NOT contact an adcom to bother them with your obsessive (and not accurate) feelings about perfection. Instead, you focus on what IS key. They aren’t grading you or judging you for some high school assignment.

So, OP, not to worry.

ps. I think MWolf has a typo in there, is not agreeing a parent was involved.