WRONG NAME in personal statement. What to do? Forum

[Cpwilson]

Hey everyone-

my gf sent her UVA personal statement to every school by mistake. It's the same statement, just with the school name reading Virginia in every one. What should she do?

[Knock]

Hey everyone-

my gf sent her UVA personal statement to every school by mistake. It's the same statement, just with the school name reading Virginia in every one. What should she do?

Probably email them a new updated PS. Write something vague like "noticed an error, please use the correct personal statement in making a decision on my application."

[bk1]

Send an updated one via email and hope they just swap it out.

Pretty sure this is something that they will notice.

ETA: Knock is faster at the internets.

[BlueDiamond]

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[CGI Fridays]

I hereby agree with the poster who agreed with the kitty who agreed with the quick-to-the-draw glockslinger.

[Moral_Midgetry]

Many schools won't let you replace a PS. They'll let you add the corrected version. This kind of stuff happens. Make the correction. It will save a little face.

[The Stig]

Hey everyone-

my gf sent her UVA personal statement to every school by mistake. It's the same statement, just with the school name reading Virginia in every one. What should she do?

ED to UVA?

sorry, I couldn't resist...

[Moral_Midgetry]

On an unrelated note, wilson, join us in the Dec refuge thread.

[socraticmethodman]

Hey everyone-

my gf sent her UVA personal statement to every school by mistake. It's the same statement, just with the school name reading Virginia in every one. What should she do?

ED to UVA?

sorry, I couldn't resist...

lmao, that was funny.

OP-I think the best bet is to do what all the above posters have said. Hopefully everything works out.

[Drake014]

Hey everyone-

my gf sent her UVA personal statement to every school by mistake. It's the same statement, just with the school name reading Virginia in every one. What should she do?

From the headlines I thought she put like "Anita Boner" instead of her own name. This mistake's much easier to explain away.

[Leira7905]

If it makes you feel any better, I had a goofy typo in the version of my PS that I sent to my top choice, and still got in. It wasn't quite as egregious as the wrong name bit, but still...

[Emma.]

Ugh. Hope she likes UVA!

Edit: The Stig beat me too it and probably has TCR.

[starbucksjunkie]

I agree with the previous comments. Fortunately for her they see this sort of mistake often so they may not judge her harshly. Just send the updated PS with a brief apology.

[Drake014]

Hey everyone-

my gf sent her UVA personal statement to every school by mistake. It's the same statement, just with the school name reading Virginia in every one. What should she do?

Seriously though, this is why I didn't put the name of the school on the PS.

[CanadianWolf]

Ask for a refund of the application fee as it was obviously sent in error.

[TommyK]

love it. My gf while in undergrad sent the wrong PS to all 8 of the schools she applied to for grad school, which explicitly stated another institution's name, and how much she wanted to go to that school. She was able to call and swap it out.

Uplifting postscript to that story: She ended up getting accepted into all the schools anyways (but ended up attending the school that was listed in the PS - big shocker, right?)

[DeeCee]

Hey everyone-

my gf sent her UVA personal statement to every school by mistake. It's the same statement, just with the school name reading Virginia in every one. What should she do?

From the headlines I thought she put like "Anita Boner" instead of her own name. This mistake's much easier to explain away.

lol I thought the same thing.

[paulinaporizkova]

wow, that's a really fucking dumb mistake to make. she sent it to every school? god. i guess i would hope i got into UVA if i were her.

[paulinaporizkova]

Hey everyone-

my gf sent her UVA personal statement to every school by mistake. It's the same statement, just with the school name reading Virginia in every one. What should she do?

ED to UVA?

sorry, I couldn't resist...

HAHA I THOUGHT THE EXACT SAME THING. i wrote a little different response. see above

[cinephile]

They'll allow you to submit a corrected version, but they'll keep the original as well and make a note to your file.

Best of luck to her, hopefully this is common enough that adcoms don't judge applicants to harshly for these sorts of things. I made a somewhat similar mistake by sending a targeted LOR to the wrong school -- and it turned out it didn't matter.

[WayBryson]

I made a similar mistake in my Berkeley application. I had misspelled "Berkeley" as "Berkley" in my earlier drafts. I caught the error when doing my final grammar sweeps (along with another minor error) and corrected it. However, I had made the same mistake in the file name and accidentally resaved the final version in some godforsaken file directory instead of overwriting the previous version...

To make a long story short, I noticed this mistake the next morning, and emailed Berkeley immediately with the correct personal statement. They emailed me back within five minutes saying they had swapped statements for me. In my opinion, it is better to acknowledge and correct the mistake than hope they won’t notice.

[Dany]

Tell "your girlfriend" to just send them an updated copy via email with an extremely nice note about how it was an error and here is the corrected version while reaffirming her interest in [hopefully the correct school's name here].

I... may or may not have sent Duke my UChicago PS. I replaced it after they had had the application for 8 days and was accepted the next afternoon.

[CGI Fridays]

Tell "your girlfriend" ...

<3

[Nicholasnickynic]

/self unless you want to go to uva AND you get in there. Otherwise, definitely /self

[CGI Fridays]

/self unless you want to go to uva AND you get in there. Otherwise, definitely /self

I... may or may not have sent Duke my UChicago PS. I replaced it after they had had the application for 8 days and was accepted the next afternoon.