Mistake in my Ivy Supplement Essays- Please help!! Deciding whether or not to resend!

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<p>Hey Guys,</p>

<p>After I sumbitted my supplement essay for an Ivy, I found a mistake:</p>

<p>“I refused to quit trying. I was convicted that if I persisted, everything would eventually change”</p>

<p>I thought that by saying I was convicted, I had said something along the lines of I believed. It sounded right to me because conviction means belief. However, it turns out to not make sense at all…</p>

<p>The essay in entirety still makes sense and the admission officers will most likely understant what I’m trying to get at. But an error is an error so should I mail in a correct version with a short explanation saying I meant to say CONVINCED to clear up the misunderstanding??</p>

<p>I’m afraid that if i mail it in, they’ll think I’m careless, paranoid or not confident, especially if they will not even notice the error. But if I don’t mail in the correction, I feel like the mistake is so obvious that they will have doubts about my writing abilities. </p>

<p>I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO, PLEASE HELP!!</p>

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<p>That’s a tough call. Either way, it’s not going to look great on your part, but I don’t think it would kill your application completely. If you write in about it, you would also just be drawing attention to it. Honestly, they read so many of these in a day, there is a chance nobody will notice, though slight. If I were in this situation, I don’t think I would do anything- maybe just an email to the regional admissions officer asking first?</p>

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<p>Relax - 99% of the time, the people reading your essay will catch that error. No need to bother the admission officers. They probably have more important things to worry about.</p>

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<p>They’ll probably assume you misspelled convinced and that spell check made it convicted.</p>

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<p>so should I just leave it??</p>