Rigenate Posted November 24, 2016 Posted November 24, 2016 I just found out that there are pretty stupid grammatical errors in one of my sentence in my SOP after I submitted it. That sentence misses a verb after "to" and has a duplicate "with.... with" at the end of the sentence. I just could not believe I did not spot the error after proofreading my SOP several times. Will this error strike me out ? Oh my God!
day_manderly Posted November 24, 2016 Posted November 24, 2016 2 hours ago, Rigenate said: I just found out that there are pretty stupid grammatical errors in one of my sentence in my SOP after I submitted it. That sentence misses a verb after "to" and has a duplicate "with.... with" at the end of the sentence. I just could not believe I did not spot the error after proofreading my SOP several times. Will this error strike me out ? Oh my God! It will definitely not strike you out (according to everything I've read on this website). It's just a tiny thing, probably won't even be noticed. You are just panicking out of geeky perfectionism. Moreover, your panic might be a sign of your application being successful - you h a v e proofread it, right? Probably polished the content to perfection? Who cares about Grammar? (as long as it's not in e v e r y sentence and not too dreadful)))
Rigenate Posted November 25, 2016 Author Posted November 25, 2016 19 hours ago, day_manderly said: It will definitely not strike you out (according to everything I've read on this website). It's just a tiny thing, probably won't even be noticed. You are just panicking out of geeky perfectionism. Moreover, your panic might be a sign of your application being successful - you h a v e proofread it, right? Probably polished the content to perfection? Who cares about Grammar? (as long as it's not in e v e r y sentence and not too dreadful))) Really thank you for your reply! day_manderly! I did proofread my statement several times. I only found errors in that sentence. The rest parts of my statement are OK. Sometimes, we just need to move on. I still have several applications needed to be submitted. Thank you again! Have a good day!
day_manderly Posted November 25, 2016 Posted November 25, 2016 27 minutes ago, Rigenate said: Really thank you for your reply! day_manderly! I did proofread my statement several times. I only found errors in that sentence. The rest parts of my statement are OK. Sometimes, we just need to move on. I still have several applications needed to be submitted. Thank you again! Have a good day! Yes, moving on is really important. Otherwise we would all go crazy (I personally am almost there ) Same here. Btw, I will be happy to look over your other SoPs if you look over mine. :/ I already have one application submitted, and I put too much work into it and too little into other schools.
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