![]() ![]() A student discussing foreign policy spelled illegal, “ill eagle” and one student (hopefully) used the wrong vowel when describing his love of math. In the past few months, I’ve read about some school called Georgia Gech and been called Georgia Tech University more times than I can count. Actually, I don’t mind the occasional light reminder that at its core, this process is human, our applicants are human, and the function that the application serves is often more important than the form it takes. By that I mean, Admission Officers aren’t cynics looking for that one mistake, a missed point on a final grade, or that one letter that’s out of place in order to cross you off the list and move on. We don’t practice gotcha! admission review. (The truth: they read his essay and likely looked past the errors.) When he was admitted, he concluded that they didn’t. Or the inverse: I’ve read a comment from a student on a college admission forum that hid typos in an essay to see if a school really read them. Let’s be honest, I’m not 100% confident in all those numbers, but I am without a doubt confident about this: in thousands of decisions rendered, no one has been denied for a typo. That’s around 35,000 essays, another 35,000 supplemental essays, 58,000 rec letters, and one “Nicholas Cage Appreciation Club” extracurricular. Here are some more numbers for you: We’ve been reviewing files for about 117 days now. That’s when you see it: the word “biomedical” repeated twice, perhaps the incorrect use of “there.” My advice could be to close your laptop, walk away from your application, and we could end the blog there. Now you anxiously start peeking back at your docuuments while you wait for the decision on the other end. Months ago you drafted your essays, polished your application, and submitted it into finality. Much like college essays, tweets can’t be edited after pressing send (but uh, if you’re listening, I wouldn’t mind sacrificing this comparison if you’d consider changing that) so this one lives on to quietly haunt me forever. And I didn’t see until until hours later. And in the very last tweet–the grand finale–the first word was a typo. The result: 351 cumulative words and 13 carefully curated tweets and retweets over four hours to capture the significance of the morning. As the person behind our admission Twitter account, I was thrilled to attend in order to share the festivities with our online community. ![]() It was a powerful celebration that happens only a few times in the life cycle of an institution. Our twelfth president was formally installed in a ceremony called an Investiture last October. Deal breakers? Episode 1: Samantha Rose-Sinclair” on Spreaker. Listen to “Typos & mistakes in college apps. This week we welcome Senior Admission Counselor Samantha Rose-Sinclair to the blog. ![]()
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