<p>“The project was due the day before Winter break began. If it was done by then, we were to take a ten percent penalty and complete it next term”</p>
<p>Those are just about the first two sentences of my common app essay. so… how screwed am I? I swore I wasn’t even going to look at those essays ever again for fear of finding something like this but now that I have, what do you think?</p>
<p>I applied to engineering first and arts and sciences alternate. unfortunately my arts and sciences essay was something along the lines of ‘why i like polished writing’ i knew i was being an imbecile but i thought i was going to pull it off…</p>
<p>maybe the engineering school will admit me and no one will read that CAS essay, or at least not-supercritically…man oh man I feel like a dunce.</p>
<p>The subjunctive is overrated anyway.</p>
<p>youd better put your app in at Macdonald’s before they stop hiring. I hear they have good benefits after 5 years of full time… :/</p>
<p>Man, I wish you luck, cuz you really need it.
Just hope for the best…</p>
<p>i guess i should have expected that from you guys anyway…</p>
<p>if you cant handle the heat, get out of the street</p>
<p>if you are looking for a serious answer, do a forum search for misspellings.</p>
<p>whats wrong with the 2 sentences, im not seeing it lol</p>
<p>its illogical, it should be “if it wasn’t”</p>
<p>I think “If it wasn’t done by then” was the intended?</p>
<p>I think they’ll understand.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, the first word of one of my essays is spelled wrong, and I am not too worried. I spelled “Chicago” as “Chigago”.</p>
<p>Yah, I spelled the town I live in wrong for my Cornell app. I’m not especially worried. I decided day one too not look at a single essay after I submitted. Not worth the stress for me, and what’s done is done.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what I did, except I had to recycle my Chigago essay for another school :(.</p>