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Mistakes in my CV. Need advice on whether I should contact graduate admission office


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I have just found some mistakes in my CV. 
I wrote ' MU Robots Camp' instead of  ' MU Robot Camp'.  

To make the matter worse, I wrote it three times in my CV and they are so obvious. 
 

Now, it is almost fifteen days after the deadline of 15th January for two universities
that I applied to, and more than a month after the deadline of the other three universities. 
Could anyone, please, give me advice on what should I do.
Should I contact the graduate admission in every university that I applied to ?  

Should I told  them directly that I would like  to update my CV or what reasons I should give them 


Thank you.

Posted

Personally, I would be annoyed by an applicant who believes that a typo is enough reason to send an updated CV. In fact, at least some of the universities will have looked at your application already. I definitely wouldn't send an update.

Guest Gnome Chomsky
Posted (edited)

You're freaking out because you made Robots plural? Can you please explain to me why that is such a big deal. And like Kleene said, there's a chance they've read your CV already. Me, personally, if I was on the adcom committee and you panicked and asked to resubmit your CV after I've already read it, if I agreed to let you resend it and then reread it to find out the differences and all I found was you changed Robots to Robot, I would reject you... just for wasting my time. But that's just me. 

 

And you don't even know the name of your own camp. After a Google search, every single link calls it MU Robotics Camp, unless I'm looking at the wrong thing. 

Edited by Gnome Chomsky
Posted (edited)

Thank you to your advice. I am sorry for thinking too much.  
It was freaking me out because I am not a native speaker.
The mistake can make my chance turned down. 

In addition, I did not really know how people will think about it.

The camp is not known internationally, but it is famous in my country
and it was the only activity that I participated.


 

Edited by Gap Sntin
Guest Gnome Chomsky
Posted

Thank you to your advice. I am sorry for thinking too much.  

It was freaking me out because I am not a native speaker.

The mistake can make my chance turned down. 

In addition, I did not really know how people will think about it.

The camp is not known internationally, but it is famous in my country

and it was the only activity that I participated.

 

 

I can understand you freaking out because you're not a native speaker and you don't want to write something grammatically incorrect. Fortunately, Robot and Robots are both perfectly grammatically correct so there's nothing to worry about. Also, the fact that it's unknown probably makes it matter less. They don't know the difference between one letter. Now, if it was some big well known company and you kept misspelling it (like spelling Microsoft as Misocroft) then I can see you having a problem. 

Posted

I can understand you freaking out because you're not a native speaker and you don't want to write something grammatically incorrect. Fortunately, Robot and Robots are both perfectly grammatically correct so there's nothing to worry about. Also, the fact that it's unknown probably makes it matter less. They don't know the difference between one letter. Now, if it was some big well known company and you kept misspelling it (like spelling Microsoft as Misocroft) then I can see you having a problem. 

Thank you for understanding me  :)

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