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I have an idea! You could just send a reply to this professor explaining the situation! Explain to her what you have explained us: that you are afraid it is not a good idea to contact these profs after you have submitted the app, and ask her for advice. Perhaps she will say it's totally fine to do that! Then you will send letters to these other profs telling that she recommended you to do that! Thus you will have a great excuse. No one will think that you are trying to influence adcom decisions or something like that by sending letters after you have applied! It is perfect!

Because it is generally considered a bad idea. It may look as if you are trying to influence adcom decisions through them. So it could put you in an awkward situation. Networking is good, there is no doubt about that, but the time when one is waiting for news from schools he/she had applied to is not exactly the right time for it.

Well, first of all you can try contacting the grad secretary and asking if you can send a new statement. When was their deadline? I don't think that contacting profs after you have submitted the application would be a good idea. It's really a pity that this professor has not sent you the reply earlier! If you will not be able to change the statement, I believe you should wait until you are accepted and then contact the profs mentioned in the letter. ...Ok, so I have started this post with the advice to change your SOP but now I am not so sure if it is a good idea after all... I will explain why. Some professors I have contacted told me that there were these other professors that could be interested in working with me. But after I contacted them, it turned out that, while they thought that my research is worthwile, they did not wanted to supervise it (they worked on somewhat different topics). What I want to say is that professors can make assumptions about projects other professors might or might not like to supervise. But that is just it - assumptions. It may different in your field, though.

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Spanish, German and French. I can already speak Spanish pretty well and I can keep a not too sophisticated conversation in German and French but I keep studying because my goal is fluency in all three of them.

That's very nice of them. It's always pleasant to come across helpful and polite graduate coordinators

Great!!

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I think it is possible. Keep calling Columbia - that's the only thing I can advise here. They must give you the answer. Good luck!

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Thank you! Good luck to you too! I am going to prepare a bit for interviews which I very much hope to get, then I will write an article I have been asked to write and I will concentrate more on learning languages, which is my hobby! In short, I will have enough things to do while I am waiting for results.

$225!! Ouch!! Don't all American graduate programs charge app fees? I believe that's the case. Why they do not charge in other countries? Different rules, I guess...

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And what about the avatar?

This thread is great, thank you for creating it!

No problem. As it was an accident, I have just undone that myself

I don't think that the air next to that heater is hot enough to damage your clothes. But may be you should not put clothes made or wool and silk on the rack next to the heater? Don't know why, just an idea

Exactly! I have read my SOP for about 100 times and still managed to miss a tiny mistake! I decided not to worry too much about it

They may or they may NOT. If they don't receive these letters soon enough after deadlines, the chances are high they will just toss your app away. Why don't you CALL the professors that do not answer your emails? You are playing with fire here.

Also, have a look at this thread: EDIT: So now I have noticed that your mistakes are NOT in your SOP That means that you really have nothing to worry about.

Don't worry, it's unlikely that your mistakes can influence adcoms' decisions. I hope these typos are not in your potential advisors' names? I would contact the program and try to change a SOP only in that case, I guess. But I have heard about applicants who were accepted even when they had made such kind of mistakes, so I really don't think that your two typos will be a problem. Relax and good luck!