List of Books

pwoods
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:52:10 +0000

“I’d hardly imagine this part of the application carrying much weight at all. You made a typo. And it sucks. But no sane admissions officer would reject you for it.”

No and yes. This part of the application really lets the admissions committee see you as an intellectual individual, so it actually carries a great deal of weight. But one typo is meaningless; only a pattern of misspellings should raise a red flag.