<p>I just realized that I spelled the word “semiconductor” as “semicondcutor” on one of my personal statements. Sigh, would this careless mistake result in me being rejected? I’m immensely worried…</p>
<p>I doubt they’d reject you based only on that.</p>
<p>I assume you are applying to some engineering field. I’m a math major and I can’t spell either.</p>
<p>They say at graduation here at GT “four years ago I couldn’t spell engineer and now I are one”.</p>
<p>Don’t sweat it too much.</p>
<p>That’s just a typo. It’s not like you spelled the school’s name wrong.</p>
<p>It might make you feel better to know that I spelled identification as indentification in my personal statement to my top choice school and still got in. At the time, I thought I was the only moron who made mistakes like this, but then, while making last minute changes to a personal statement, my friend typed Havard instead of Harvard. Said institution now has her as a student.</p>
<p>thanks all, i feel better now :)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, plenty of admissions panelists would see this as unacceptable… that’s why they ALWAYS stress that statements should be well edited and revised. Why didn’t your spell-check catch that? I mean, that’s a spelling error you noticed, but what about other words??? If you think about it, a personal statement as part of your app is a big deal, and many believe that if you don’t take the time to carefully review something that important…then…???</p>
<p>whether the admissions committee doesn´t notice it or does notice it, there is nothing you can do to change it now. i hardly think that someone would hold it against you if you made one little mistake if you are a strong candidate for their program. but then again, you might get one difficult person who makes a big deal out of it. a lot of the decision making is based on factors that are out of your control, and truthfully, all you can do now is breathe, relax, and just think of other things. </p>
<p>i am in the same position, i made a punctuation mistake on my purpose statement, i think i misspelled something and used a wrong word repeatedly on my writing sample, and truthfully, i dont think my gres are good enough, but what can i do now about it? </p>
<p>what calms me down is the hope that they realize that i am still a student and still have a lot to learn.</p>
<p>it really depends on the personality of those who’ll be in admissions committee - before my application process i thought it was all about me being good enough or not being good enough but then i realized how much it really depends on who was selected to read the applications - "everybody has their personal preferences when it comes to applicants " that’s what i’ve been told by someone who was on committee this year in my program</p>
<p>spelling mistakes are probably just one factor of a myriad of things that some people will find irritable - the remainder you won’t ever know about - so don’t stress out about this one little thing - if they don’t accept you because of a spelling mistake you probably don’t want to do there anyhow …</p>
<p>It’s not a good thing, that’s for sure, but if it’s the only error in a sterling application, you should be fine.</p>
<p>I worried about that too. I’m not that obsessed with filling out applications where I would have my essays/statements professionally edited. I can spell alright (and I will look up words if I have doubts) but I’m terrible with grammar. I’m sure if you apply to schools that are ultra-competitive, they might take that into consideration, simply as a weed out tactic. If you’re applying to more middle of the road schools…probably not as big of a deal. </p>
<p>But, if you have strong credentials, and they reject you based simply on one misspelling…I’d probably not even want to attend that school anyway. Any school that would discount all your accomplishments simply because you had a type-o probably doesn’t have its priorities straight.</p>
<p>That’s kind of how I feel about standardized tests. You can have all kinds of top-knotch credentials and they get thrown out the window should you score poorly on a 3-hour test, that really has nothing to do with what you’d be doing in college.</p>
<p>I had a really high GPA (3.49/4.0 overall, 3.5 in my major, 3.75 in my minor) in college, received all kinds of accademic awards and took hard classes, volunteered at VA hospitals regularly, and was VP of a Student Organization, and held a full-time job with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, earned a degree with honors in Economics, minored in Criminal Justice, and earned a teaching certification in Econ. I served in the military (military police) for 5 years prior to going to college and accomplished a great deal while in. I lived overseas extensively, held leadership positions, and had (including military service) 7 years of work experience under my belt at the time I took the LSAT. I didn’t really prepare for the test the way I should have - simply didn’t have the time or the $ to do so. I actually signed up for the test 3 weeks prior to taking it. I scored a 470 on the test (I didn’t find it terribly difficult, but I ran out of time on most of the sections and basically just filled in bubbles). I applied to 1 law school (4th Teir school) and was rejected.</p>
<p>I’d really like to go to law school - I don’t even care where - but that made me so mad, that I probably won’t reapply anywhere. I scored a 20 on the ACT in HS and though I did pretty well at the college level. I think I’d probably do similiarly well in law school, but I guess we’ll never know?</p>
<p>I start at Northwestern this Fall - MPPA program.</p>
<p>Hey uicgrad,</p>
<p>Congrats on Northwestern! I’ll be graduating from there in a couple of days and starting at Stanford in the fall.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’m excited. Congratulations to you as well, and best of luck at Stanford. Looks like you’re building a pretty decent resume for yourself.</p>
<p>I have a very high GPA, I volunteer, I listed a lot of other experiences. But I just read my personal statement again and it doesn’t sound as good to me, I could have written a lot of things differently. I even spelled a word wrong 
And now I can’t sleep…
Is that spelling error going to disqualify me???</p>
<p>2006… nice!</p>
<p>should’ve made the effort when it counted… tsk tsk tsk</p>
<p>I wrote “bought us together” instead of “brought us together” OMG T.T</p>