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Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:28 pm
by fiercegoldfish
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:31 pm
by cc1012
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:32 pm
by benwyatt
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Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:33 pm
by TLSModBot
Yeah, only do this if you misspelled it as 'Harvard.'
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:36 pm
by fats provolone
ding
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:06 pm
by pancakes3
negging Stanford - I like it.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:18 pm
by lawlorbust
At least you didn't call them Samford ...
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:23 pm
by Nekrowizard
If it makes you feel better they probably passed it around their office so that they could laugh at it before they dinged you.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:08 pm
by Mack.Hambleton
Change your name and reapply next year
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:17 pm
by DecisionMaker100
If you don't want to deal with it, you can just go to standford law school instead
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:19 pm
by pleadthafif
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Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:55 am
by Companion Cube
Just consider this a lesson to friggin proofread important emails in the future. I for some reason get 10% dumber when I write emails and end up making stupid mistakes, so I understand. But I've made enough of them so that I know to double check my emails before sending them.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:52 am
by ihenry
If that makes you feel better, I misspelled my undergrad school name in an e-mail to a law school asking for fee waiver. My friends were like, LOLOLOLOLOL you must have bought a fake degree HAHAHAHAHA. I nearly wanted to jump off a building.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:08 pm
by fiercegoldfish
Thanks for all the advice! I most certainly will not write back pointing out the error, as ya'll have advised (and unfortunately I don't have the time to find and befriend a Bill Standford).
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:16 pm
by Germaine
It's probably worse that you misspelled 'mispelled.'
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:18 pm
by EnderWiggin
Germaine wrote:It's probably worse that you misspelled 'mispelled.'
fiercegoldfish wrote:as ya'll have advised
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:31 pm
by benwyatt
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Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:45 pm
by fiercegoldfish
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Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:50 pm
by EnderWiggin
fiercegoldfish wrote:EnderWiggin wrote:Germaine wrote:It's probably worse that you misspelled 'mispelled.'
fiercegoldfish wrote:as ya'll have advised
Will apologize for "misspelled" (though on a forum that doesn't bother me so much), won't apologize for "ya'll" though! And you're right benwyatt. There's no excuse!
You don't have to apologize. But you are putting the apostrophe in the wrong place. The contraction shortens "you all." It is incorrect to separate the (a) from the (ll) - that makes no sense. It's y'all, not ya'll.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:54 pm
by fiercegoldfish
EnderWiggin wrote:fiercegoldfish wrote:EnderWiggin wrote:Germaine wrote:It's probably worse that you misspelled 'mispelled.'
fiercegoldfish wrote:as ya'll have advised
Will apologize for "misspelled" (though on a forum that doesn't bother me so much), won't apologize for "ya'll" though! And you're right benwyatt. There's no excuse!
You don't have to apologize. But you are putting the apostrophe in the wrong place. The contraction shortens "you all." It is incorrect to separate the (a) from the (ll) - that makes no sense. It's y'all, not ya'll.
Oh, got it! I've never been corrected on that before, but will make sure to fix it in the future. Thanks!
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:10 pm
by fats provolone
It depends on the situation actually.
Y'all (short for "you all") is for small groups
Ya'll (short for "y'all all") is for large groups or to mean "everyone." In some regions "all y'all" is also used for this purpose.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:13 pm
by EnderWiggin
fats provolone wrote:It depends on the situation actually.
Y'all (short for "you all") is for small groups
Ya'll (short for "y'all all") is for large groups or to mean "everyone." In some regions "all y'all" is also used for this purpose.
Y'all all. New to me, but I like it.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:18 pm
by pancakes3
Team all y'all.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 8:55 pm
by ihenry
I initially thought ya'll for you all is unequivocally wrong because not in any stage of English that I'm aware of were you allowed to break a normal word and insert an apostrophe. But then I realized if you take "ya" to mean "you" and contract "all" into "'ll", it does remotely make some sense.
Re: Mispelled Stanford in email to admissions
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 9:02 pm
by ManoftheHour
Mack.Hambleton wrote:Change your name and reapply next year