I wonder if Cornell has notified all of the accepted applicants; it's a small cohort, so I guess it's likely that they've been called. Idk -- has anyone heard anything about Cornell (or Brown) from The Draft?
^If it helps, I've been told by people who have gone through the process/have been readers that so long as the piece isn't riddled with mistakes, a typo won't break you!
But I definitely regret looking at my sample; ignorance truly is bliss, in this case.
I applied to a fair amount of programs a little over a month ago and decided, out of boredom, to revisit my manuscript. (Yes, ill-advised—I know!) When I got to the third page, my heart sank. There it is! I knew it! A typo. A missed word, to be exact. The word “to”—skipped over.
This isn’t a “could-be” typo. Not something that could be chalked up to a stylistic choice. No, it’s pretty obvious.