Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal? Forum
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Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
In conducting a final review of an application, I noticed a small typo (one sentence is missing the word "the") in one of my supplemental essays. Thankfully I caught it for this particular app; unfortunately, I had sent a very similar supplement to another school and failed to catch the error. This may sound a bit paranoid, but how big of a deal do you think this is? Is it worth sending a follow-up, or would that just make it worse by calling attention to the error?
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Re: Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
I would just let it go. They read those things so quickly, they might not even catch it.
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Re: Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
At a panel I just went to, the Deans said they didn't care about one typo--they just don't want to see a pattern of egregious mistakes.
Edit: The Deans were from Chicago, Michigan, and Penn if that helps any. All three of them agreed on this point.
Edit: The Deans were from Chicago, Michigan, and Penn if that helps any. All three of them agreed on this point.
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Re: Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
depends on the school, if you sent it to HYS CCN they will dock you bad if you are borderline.
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Re: Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
I don't think it will matter much. One typo in a supplemental essay doesn't seem that big of a deal if your PS, app, and everything else turned out okay.
Good luck!!
Good luck!!
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Re: Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
Thanks all... Great to hear that anectote from the admissions panel since I definitely sent the error to one of those schools
Having a copy of your submitted applications available for review is horrible for the paranoia...

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Re: Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
Funny thing is adcomm's always say that typos are one of their biggest peeves when they do interviews
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Re: Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
depends on gpa/lsat.
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Re: Small typo in supplemental essay: How big of a deal?
Well I'll be sure to update this in a few months and let you know how this turns out. I am comfortably within the LSAT/GPA range of a school I sent it to, so we'll see if it makes a major difference.