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Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:20 pm
by Pancakes12
Realized I misspelled "led" as "lead"... Applied to HLS... It's in the last paragraph. Forget about it or send in a new copy?

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:35 pm
by DwightSchruteFarms
Pancakes12 wrote:Realized I misspelled "led" as "lead"... Applied to HLS... It's in the last paragraph. Forget about it or send in a new copy?
Go get hammered. It's Friday

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:45 pm
by Pancakes12
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:
Pancakes12 wrote:Realized I misspelled "led" as "lead"... Applied to HLS... It's in the last paragraph. Forget about it or send in a new copy?
Go get hammered. It's Friday
Solid advice for sure, but is it going to affect my chances with them?

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:47 pm
by dowu
Pancakes12 wrote:
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:
Pancakes12 wrote:Realized I misspelled "led" as "lead"... Applied to HLS... It's in the last paragraph. Forget about it or send in a new copy?
Go get hammered. It's Friday
Solid advice for sure, but is it going to affect my chances with them!
They probably wont read that shit bro. All they care about are your numbers. I promise you that.

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:37 pm
by Pancakes12
dowu wrote:
Pancakes12 wrote:
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:
Pancakes12 wrote:Realized I misspelled "led" as "lead"... Applied to HLS... It's in the last paragraph. Forget about it or send in a new copy?
Go get hammered. It's Friday
Solid advice for sure, but is it going to affect my chances with them!
They probably wont read that shit bro. All they care about are your numbers. I promise you that.
It isn't that clear cut. Some people with great numbers get rejected. That has to be for a reason. In all honesty, what should I do?

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:39 pm
by Magical Trevor
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:Go get hammered. It's Friday

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:53 pm
by hephaestus
There is a high probability this won't get discovered. I wouldn't draw attention to it by sending another ps.

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:54 pm
by hephaestus
skzen75 wrote:
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:Go get hammered. It's Friday
Also this.

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:09 pm
by Pancakes12
ImNoScar wrote:
skzen75 wrote:
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:Go get hammered. It's Friday
Also this.
Alright thanks. But if it were discovered.... How much of an impact do you think it would have?

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:13 pm
by dowu
Pancakes12 wrote:
ImNoScar wrote:
skzen75 wrote:
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:Go get hammered. It's Friday
Also this.
Alright thanks. But if it were discovered.... How much of an impact do you think it would have?
Zero. People who are denied with higher numbers are denied BECAUASe of yield protection. I can't imagine them denying someone because of a typo in their PS.

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:18 pm
by hephaestus
Pancakes12 wrote:
ImNoScar wrote:
skzen75 wrote:
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:Go get hammered. It's Friday
Also this.
Alright thanks. But if it were discovered.... How much of an impact do you think it would have?
There's no empirical answer to your question. We don't know how much of an impact. However, if it had a big effect we would see more variance on lsn. There are likely minor errors in many applications, and yet admissions numbers are not that inconsistent.

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:27 pm
by ScottRiqui
dowu wrote: Zero. People who are denied with higher numbers are denied BECAUASe of yield protection. I can't imagine them denying someone because of a typo in their PS.
I agree that it's not likely to have much of an effect, but I also doubt that Harvard is dinging very many high scorers for yield protection. Rather, they're one of the few schools with enough high-quality applicants that they can afford to look beyond the numbers and make decisions based on softs, without worrying about their medians.

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:30 pm
by thebigtinman
FWIW:

Improbably enough, this exact thing happened to me (typo in the final paragraph of my PS to HLS, where I was a fringe candidate). I sent in a fresh version and got in. No clue if it helped. My opinion: Might as well send in a fixed copy.

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:35 pm
by BullShitWithBravado
I know someone who included the name of the wrong law school in one of his personal statements to a T-14 and he still got in.

Re: Typo in Ps!!

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:44 pm
by esypsylmnsqsy
skzen75 wrote:
DwightSchruteFarms wrote:Go get hammered. It's Friday
If you're sweating this, this is definitely TCR.