Typos in application

[Hopeful SLP]

This is why I won't reread my SOP. I worked on them tirelessly for months... Then on submission day, I got all inspired and rewrote paragraphs in their entirety. I felt great at the time, but I am terrified now. Just waiting...

[Julianne Pigoon]

What's a facepalm?

[Helpplease123]

Ahh thanks...kids and their crazy terms...I think I missed the introduction of this one

[pikachu]

well, I decided to be brave and do this. reread. and in the first(!) paragraph of my SoP I see:

"..., I decided to reduce the problem OF necessity OF having some sense OF life to the set OF “computable” within lifetime problems"

holy sh*t!

some word freq. table for this miserable sentence:

of - 4

problem - 2

life  - 2

to - 2

can't believe I honestly wasn't drunk when writing this!

adcoms: "This girl is a master OF redundant use OF unappropriate combinations OF words complete turn-OFf "

decided to stop at first paragraph. to preserve sanity.

[snes]

I belatedly discovered I'd misspelled publicly in 5 of my 7 applications.

Really thought this was going to end as "pubicly."

[anonymous1492]

FWIW: I submitted the wrong statement of purpose to a school... and got in.

So perhaps its not worth it to sweat these things too much.

[felicite]

I had a misspelling in my title of my writing sample for an English PhD application. Most got fixed. One didn't. I'm hoping they thought I was making a statement of some kind. Still waiting for that rejection.

[felicite]

P.S. I love Matt Smith. He is my favorite Doctor Who.

[anonyouknow]

Really thought this was going to end as "pubicly."

OH THANK GOD NO. Haha, I was embarrassed enough to discover that one mistake, I would have been absolutely horrified to have "pubicly" in my statement!

[SomedaySLP]

FWIW, I went back to re-read the first two applications I sent in (way back in early October) to steal bits of for other SOPs and noticed a couple of errors in BOTH of them, as well as a silly grammatical error (word missing) from my resume. I was completely convinced that I should write those two off as losses and called them my "practice applications". They're now my first two acceptances. Don't stress too much--if you didn't catch the mistakes the first 100 reads, it's likely no one else will either, especially adcoms who are reading hundreds of these things in a short timeframe.