fatal typo?

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I was just looking back over one of my applications online, and I found a typo in one of my words. I frantically checked over the rest, to make sure it wasn't there, but still - I literally yelled: "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

I have 11V and S for writing, but still...

Have you survived a typo?
 
i had a typo, 5 interviews. blah. if the adcoms care about a silly error then that is their loss
 
it won't be fatal. forget about it.
 
My blood pressure just went down significantly.

Do you guys come in pill form?

...too much SDN.
 
I too had a typo, and I got to the interview stage. The interviewer flipped through my app and said, "Well, it looks like you-- wait, WTF, a typo?!" He then jumped up, flipped the desk over, ripped his shirt off like the incredible hulk, and told me to get out of his office and out of his school. He also asked if I was ******ed, which I thought was insensitive to the mentally ill community at large. I don't think your 11 VR and S writing can save you.

It wasn't "fatal" for me, but for minute there I wondered if it might be...
 
I too had a typo, and I got to the interview stage. The interviewer flipped through my app and said, "Well, it looks like you-- wait, WTF, a typo?!" He then jumped up, flipped the desk over, ripped his shirt off like the incredible hulk, and told me to get out of his office and out of his school. He also asked if I was ******ed, which I thought was insensitive to the mentally ill community at large. I don't think your 11 VR and S writing can save you.

It wasn't "fatal" for me, but for minute there I wondered if it might be...

Best. Answer. Ever. You sir, are hilarious.
 
when i first saw this title, i thought it was literal. like an execution order was carried out inadvertently.

i second the above poster.

unless you have consistent typos, i doubt anyone really cares. apps are so freaking long. it's not the same as a 1 page resume.
 
100% sure that one or two typos don't matter. i accidentally left out a verb in one of my sentences in my personal statement (it was in earlier drafts), and i'm sure no one has noticed. one typo is natural, and admissions committees read essays so quickly that they would not pick up the odd typo. i pretty much have interviews from every school i applied to, and not a single interviewer was concerned with my writing skills (and my writing score was lower than yours too, haha).
 
Actually, the first few words of one of my AMCAS essays (I'm an MSTP applicant and it was the research essay) was cut off. You better believe I freaked out when I realized it started mid-sentence. But I have many interviews and several acceptances, so I worry about it less now. Relax. You won't be canned solely because of that.
 
I too had a typo, and I got to the interview stage. The interviewer flipped through my app and said, "Well, it looks like you-- wait, WTF, a typo?!" He then jumped up, flipped the desk over, ripped his shirt off like the incredible hulk, and told me to get out of his office and out of his school. He also asked if I was ******ed, which I thought was insensitive to the mentally ill community at large. I don't think your 11 VR and S writing can save you.

It wasn't "fatal" for me, but for minute there I wondered if it might be...

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Post of the day...no, wait...the month.
 
I had a fatal typo that led to a Pitt rejection. My secondary essay for Pitt was great right up to the part where I said
In summary, I feel I would be a great fit for the entering class at the University of Michigan.
 
I too had a typo, and I got to the interview stage. The interviewer flipped through my app and said, "Well, it looks like you-- wait, WTF, a typo?!" He then jumped up, flipped the desk over, ripped his shirt off like the incredible hulk, and told me to get out of his office and out of his school. He also asked if I was ******ed, which I thought was insensitive to the mentally ill community at large. I don't think your 11 VR and S writing can save you.

It wasn't "fatal" for me, but for minute there I wondered if it might be...

Awesome.

Was your interview with Chuck Norris? I heard his AMCAS application was about his desire to stop disease - not to save lives, but to eliminate competition.

Har. Lame. I tried.
 
Yes...the typo was fatla

:meanie:

no worries, I'm sure you'll be fine!
 
I had a fatal typo that led to a Pitt rejection. My secondary essay for Pitt was great right up to the part where I said
In summary, I feel I would be a great fit for the entering class at the University of Michigan.

Really? Man, that sucks. I have to admit that it did make me smile a little when I read that. I hope this doesn't make me a bad person. It's just schadenfreude. 👍
 
I would have withdrawn anyways, so it doesnt bother me too much. I could have linked to Pitt if Id really wanted to go. I now realize that I applied to too many schools that I dont really want to go to...
 
The typo may have even amused them =)
I wouldn't worry about it.
 
i had typos in my USC and UCDavis secondaries. I got interviews at both.
 
I had a fatal typo that led to a Pitt rejection. My secondary essay for Pitt was great right up to the part where I said
In summary, I feel I would be a great fit for the entering class at the University of Michigan.

Wow... that really sucks.
 
What was the typo?
I'm damn curious myself. The only reason I can see freaking out over this is if your typo was vulgar. Speaking of which...

I was working for a doctor's answering service, and I get a call for one of the pediatric groups. As usual, it's not an emergency and can hold for the hourly check-in, but the mom wants the doctor paged immediately. The reason? Her daughter has a rash, with pus. Now... we have a finite amount of characters for the message ticket, so, in an effort to safe space, I something like "Itchy ***** rash". In my mind, that word rhymed with hussy. I sent it to the doctor not even realizing what it looked like (it didn't even cross my mind). Amazingly, the doctor never called about it, so I assume he knew what I meant to say. I did, however, get a message from a team leader, who often checked all the messages that were being entered, telling me I didn't have to write whatever the caller said (I fear the mother that refers to her daughter's vagina in that way...). I was ten shades of maroon for the next hour.

I tell my mom this story, and she points out to be that 'pus-sy' isn't really a word. Purulent is the proper term (though that certainly wouldn't have helped me fit the entire message on the ticket). Of course, at the next follow-up visit I have with a surgeon that had operated on me recently, he tells me to give him a call if my incisions become 'pus-sy'. Ah well...
 
I'm damn curious myself. The only reason I can see freaking out over this is if your typo was vulgar. Speaking of which...

I was working for a doctor's answering service, and I get a call for one of the pediatric groups. As usual, it's not an emergency and can hold for the hourly check-in, but the mom wants the doctor paged immediately. The reason? Her daughter has a rash, with pus. Now... we have a finite amount of characters for the message ticket, so, in an effort to safe space, I something like "Itchy ***** rash". In my mind, that word rhymed with hussy. I sent it to the doctor not even realizing what it looked like (it didn't even cross my mind). Amazingly, the doctor never called about it, so I assume he knew what I meant to say. I did, however, get a message from a team leader, who often checked all the messages that were being entered, telling me I didn't have to write whatever the caller said (I fear the mother that refers to her daughter's vagina in that way...). I was ten shades of maroon for the next hour.

I tell my mom this story, and she points out to be that 'pus-sy' isn't really a word. Purulent is the proper term (though that certainly wouldn't have helped me fit the entire message on the ticket). Of course, at the next follow-up visit I have with a surgeon that had operated on me recently, he tells me to give him a call if my incisions become 'pus-sy'. Ah well...

For that matter, you can give me a call, too. I'm always up for a ....


ok, I'll stop....
 
I had a typo in my PS and it was an explitive. Nobody mentioned it.
 
Wow. I just typed "me" instead of "my." I guess I'm pretty well off. Then again, if I don't get accepted, I'll try including more expletives.
 
lol, a little typo? and you are that worried? I'm on the opposite spectrum for you. No typos, but an 8VR and M writing sample. :laugh:
 
Yea, one time in Orgo lab I accidentally described my product as a "white power". oops.

😆

okay, despite your lack of remorse, i now forgive you for scarring me for life with that picture of an electrocution victim.
 
😆

okay, despite your lack of remorse, i now forgive you for scarring me for life with that picture of an electrocution victim.

Yea, apparently that was a big deal. I think all the mods are now sitting in their little room waiting for me to post something they can ban me for.
 
I too had a typo, and I got to the interview stage. The interviewer flipped through my app and said, "Well, it looks like you-- wait, WTF, a typo?!" He then jumped up, flipped the desk over, ripped his shirt off like the incredible hulk, and told me to get out of his office and out of his school. He also asked if I was ******ed, which I thought was insensitive to the mentally ill community at large. I don't think your 11 VR and S writing can save you.

It wasn't "fatal" for me, but for minute there I wondered if it might be...

"Are you dense? Are you ******ed or something? I'm the godd*mn Batman!"
 
If it helps I spelled HIPAA as HIPPA in my main statement and I got two interviews and one acceptance so far. I'm sure you'll be fine.
 
Friend of mine sent a LOI to Tuffs SOM. Gee, he never got a reply. . .
 
several major typos in the secondary for a school from which I received an acceptance. i pulled my hair out worry about it, but i guess they dont care too much- were only human. dont worry about it too much! good luck!🙂
 
i'm willing to bet that switching the school name thing once has no very little correlation with rejections. as in, out of 1000's of name switches, only a very small minority were directly responsible for a rejection. med school administration is a lot less monolithic than what you probably think...they know it's a high stress process.
 
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