How much do the short answer questions count?

Colleges & Universities Brown University
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<p>Cuz i just realized that i made an egregious grammatical error on one of my Brown Short Answer responses </p>

<p>I left out the word “of” even though I proofread it several times.</p>

<p>Gosh, how can I be so stupid? They prob think that i didn’t even bother to read it over.</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about minor mistakes. We’re human, afterall
I think the ‘Why Brown’ essay is very important.</p>

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<p>I don’t think that is egregious</p>

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<p>You missed seeing the error “of” because of top-down processing. We normally insert the word “of” when reading even if it’s not written. While the short answers are important, I don’t think they would kill you for that error! It’s understandable.</p>

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<p>Have you ever done that thing where you have to count the "f"s in the paragraph? Everyone always misses the f in of because we read it as ov. Not really revelent to the original post, but kinda relevent to Jenz’s post. I just think it’s cool. lol</p>

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<p>right its bc we only will count what sounds like an f not like a v. tehres one for s vs. z too.</p>

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<p>To the original question, don’t sweat it, if you failed to pick up on the mistake, the admissions officers may miss it as well, it’s certainly understandable. On pretty much unrelated note though, this is really cool if you’ve never seen it:
“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro.”</p>

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<p>^OMG! That is so cool! It’s like you know its all wrong, but you can still read it w/o a problem. lol</p>

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<p>hehe. yes, VERY cool</p>

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<p>Dont worry… if you missed it… most likely they will. Also, think about how many things they read in a day, they will most likely fill in the missing word without knowing it (just like you did). </p>

<p>mikey101 - that’s crazy</p>

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<p>mikey - It doesn’t actually work that way… ;)</p>

<p>Aricdcong to a rsrhaceech at an Esilngh uesnrtiivy… etc.</p>

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<p>Lol, I understand that it has its limitations but still that version isn’t too difficult to make out, its much easier to read if you use a lot of three and four letter words.</p>

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<p>lol well regardless, i am expecting a REJECT from Brown :(</p>