NO!!!!!! - Typos found in college application after submission

orange71
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 00:13:23 +0000

I had spent days crafting what I believed to be four excellent essays for the application to my dream school (which, while not Ivy League, is fairly prestigious.) About a week ago, out of pure curiosity, I went back to check my Common App after I had submitted it in late September. To my horror, I discovered that in two of the essays, there were 3 errors, albeit minor. For instance, I omitted the article “an” before a noun. In another, I wrote “possible” instead of “possibly.”

I have been in a panic ever since - the fear that this 3 small mistakes might cost me admission to a school I have been working towards for years now (as I am a transfer student) has lost me a bit of sleep. Will these mistakes come back to haunt me or am I making much ado about nothing? Has anyone had any experience with making errors in their application and still received admission to a high ranking school? HELP ME, PLEASE!