Minor Spelling Mistake in SOI for Harvard

[Thinker123]

Hi, im new here and im applying for the DBA in Strategy at Harvard Business School.

Even though I have proofread all submitted statements very carefully, two minor spelling mistakes have occurred in the statement corresponding to the question if the applicant considered anything about his or her career and academic patterns to be unusual. During the last editing, my Microsoft Word program seemed to have automatically edited the compositional coherence of the two words “Austrian” and “bank”, as well as it has cut the word “a”, leading to the final and wrong composition: “…I have developed banking innovation strategy package that I will release to an Austria bank in”. I am very eager to make the best impression and this spelling errors bother me.

No other spelling mistakes occured. I know this might seem a bit overzealous, but I am a bit anxious about it. Does anyone here have experience with this or know from admissions comittees of how such a mistake would be (if at all and if noticed) considered?

Regards,

Jonathan

[1Q84]

It might raise some eyebrows.

I would (very kindly) ask the graduate secretary if you might be able to resubmit a typo-less SOP and explain your case of technological auto-correct phantoms messing you up. I'm sure it happens all the time and at least you were keen enough to catch the mistake, which is better than not catching it and letting the adcomms read it!

[Thinker123]

Thanks for your advice. Yeah, I was also thinking about that. But then again I think that they or the office might say that I shouldn´t worry about that (from my experience Harvard is very supportive).