<p>I found three typos in my Why Dartmouth essays. It wasn’t that I was careless, I read over them almost 5 times. I can’t believe I missed them! How detrimental is this? I mean, I would understand them letting go of one, but three?</p>
<p>you’re so damn screwed</p>
<p>autoreject4sure</p>
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<p>Lets see…to know how detrimental 3 typos is you would need to look at your essay vs your competitors essay writing capability. You’d also have to take in account how bad the typo is. Is it a large typo that disrupts the logic of the overall essay, or is it something small. If your program isn’t too impacted, and if your typos aren’t too bad, then it should only affect you a little. These essays have typos all the time. You’re not the only one. It’s not something significant enough to throw you out of the game though.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t really make that big a difference, your chance is probably around 5% w/o the typos anyway.
Good luck :)</p>
<p>well… since I editted it so many times, the mistakes were word omissions or switches.</p>
<p>you should be fine. adcom’s from like harvard and yale get typos and it’s fine.</p>
<p>lol jimmy, you edited it 5 times, i edit my essays around 15-20x each
my dartmouth essay has been edited over 50 times</p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter that much. I read a story by an Adcom about a trumpet player that was writing about Louis Armstrong, but accidentally kept on putting Neil Armstrong in place of it. He didn’t take it the wrong way and he still got accepted even though that was a HUGE typo that could of easily of been noticed with some editing. I think it was to an ivy too.</p>
<p>Man, three little bitty typos are not really horrible. Jimmy2588, what did you do? I bet that it is something not worth beating yourself up about.</p>
<p>-what distinguishes dartmouth different from… (meant to delete different)
-not only to explore…, but also to economics and philosophy (forgot “to study”)
-students are they because they want to… (meant to be “there”)</p>
<p>is it worth submitting a correction?</p>
<p>nope</p>
<p>they don’t screw up the meanings so you’re fine</p>
<p>Don’t sweat it. I’m sure Dartmouth wouldn’t reject you because of something as silly as a few typos in an essay. So long as you didn’t accidently substitute the words “I abhor” rather than “would cherish acceptance at” before every mention of “Dartmouth” in your essay.</p>