<p>I turned in my app for EA and then I realized I had a spelling mistake in my essay, in the first sentence! Is this going to kill my app? Do you think I could contact admin and send in another essay? or should I just not worry about it…</p>
<p>Send another essay. Just make sure your proofreading is flawless this time.</p>
<p>can i do that? just send admissions another essay by email?</p>
<p>If it’s good, they’ll forget the spelling mistake. Seriously, I’ve read essays with spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors that got in. Why? They were really good, captivating. Good essays like these get a little slack in the grammar/punctuation/spelling catagory because they interest the person reading, causing them to forget that minute error. As long as it isn’t leaking with errors, and it’s good, it isn’t a big worry.</p>
<p>don’t worry about it. don’t send in another.</p>
<p>Hey, runningncircles, are you an adcom at Harvard? Or maybe a counseler?</p>
<p>No, I’m a TA at my school. I’m speaking strictly from what I know about human psychology. For example, some writers that I can think of (Edgar Allan Poe and O’Connar) have grammatical and spelling mistakes in their writings. But, they’re acclaimed writers. Why? They know how to grip the attention of their audiences. They aren’t formulaic. They bring new thoughts with traditional Jung psycology, including ego, conscience, and supernatural/subconscience. They took their experiences and constructed them in prose and poetry with a language people can understand. </p>
<p>Most people who get denied by Harvard can’t write… it’s a bit harsh, but true. Perfect scores, yes. But, when they need to express themselves, they can’t and end up with a “Intro/Thesis>Body>Conclusion” style paragraph. It’s flawless with grammar, but full of flaws with style, innovation, etc. It’s emotionless dribble with a few SAT words put in; you can’t get a sense of the writer or how they feel about their subject. Read this:</p>
<p>I love cheese. It tastes exquisite. However, it mars my stomach. Still, it tastes awe-inspiring. </p>
<p>Grammatically correct, yes. But, boring. Also, I used “mar” and “awe-inspiring” incorrectly (obviously); this is a common mistake because people writing an essay will generally right-click a word on their Microsoft Word document and get a synonym of it. However, these synonyms don’t always mean the exact same thing. Read this:</p>
<p>In a world full of sweets, fried foods, and other luscious goodies, cheese in all it’s forms has to be my favorite. The taste of it on my tounge makes my legs quiver, my eyes close. Though it hurts my stomach, I could consume this delightful treat until I explode.</p>
<p>Mistakes: “all it’s forms” should be “all OF ITS forms”(though the former sounds better); “tounge” should be “tongue”; and “my legs quiver, my eyes close” should be “my legs quiver and my eyes close.” It was a bit more descriptive, though, and enticive. It attracted the reader by taking something small and making it bigger, using emotion and sensation to engage the reader in the eating process of cheese.</p>
<p>i found a couple typos in my resume. resend?</p>
<p>Typos stand out when material is brief. Re-do, re-send, is usually the better option.</p>
<p>Or, better-yet, for future reference, get the stuff done early enough for you to have substantial opportunity to proofread.</p>