Double period in FIRST LINE of optional essay

[sliceofbread136]

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How bad will this really stupid mistake hurt me....

 

[armybound]

oh it's over

 

[theseeker4]

How bad will this really stupid mistake hurt me....

Do yourself a favor and stop looking at anything after you submit it.....

 

[1289]

Sucks to suck

 

[kpcrew]

good luck getting into med school

 

[sliceofbread136]

Im guessing by the sarcastic responses that I am likely overreacting...

 

[theseeker4]

Im guessing by the sarcastic responses that I am likely overreacting...

My answer was 100% serious. Yes, you are overreacting, and you absolutely should NOT look at anything after submitting it, since you can't do anything about it now. Why drive yourself nuts, feeling compelled to create threads asking how much this or that error will hurt you?

 

[Colonel Sanders]

I just want to say thanks for the laugh. This post was hilarious. You're fine, nothing to worry about at all. They'll just skip over the error. The only time something like that would hurt you would be if your essay was full of grammar errors all over the place.

 

[Praefectus]

I just want to say thanks for the laugh. This post was hilarious. You're fine, nothing to worry about at all. They'll just skip over the error. The only time something like that would hurt you would be if your essay was full of grammar errors all over the place.

I lernd that I wanted to do medecin when i was just a lil boi.

 

[Bro Dude]

0/10

 

[NickNaylor]

I've seen one or two applications that are absolutely littered with typos, grammatical mistakes, formatting errors, etc.. I assure you that two periods aren't going to matter.

 

[gettheleadout]

I've seen one or two applications that are absolutely littered with typos, grammatical mistakes, formatting errors, etc.. I assure you that two periods aren't going to matter.

This boggles my mind.

 

[CodeBlu]

Better start practicing...

"Do you want fries with that?"

 

[NickNaylor]

This boggles my mind.

Yeah, tell me about it. Being the very detail-oriented person that I am it just makes me cringe. And the thing is they made it past screening because I only review applications to prepare for interviews. The people reading those applications are more forgiving than I would be.

 

[Narmerguy]

Yeah, tell me about it. Being the very detail-oriented person that I am it just makes me cringe. And the thing is they made it past screening because I only review applications to prepare for interviews. The people reading those applications are more forgiving than I would be.

Got to admit, I hate reading writing with grammatical and punctuation mistakes all over it. It's frustrating and really does not reflect well on the person writing--presumably having or soon to have a college diploma.

 

[1289]

medisin is real keel. yooo. fo shizz

 

[Frazier]

OP, you will make a terrible doctor..

I don't want my surgeon accidentally leaving in a double period when performing the FIRST LINE of my operation..

I feel sorry for your future patients..

 

[pfaction]

Got to admit, I hate reading writing with grammatical and punctuation mistakes all over it. It's frustrating and really does not reflect well on the person writing--presumably having or soon to have a college diploma.

I mean, we all make one or two inadvertent mistakes. I accidentally left a space inbetween a chemical's name in my MD/PhD essay...:\

 

[Frazier]

I mean, we all make one or two inadvertent mistakes. I accidentally left a space inbetween a chemical's name in my MD/PhD essay...:\

there's just no coming back from that, brotha man.

 

[Narmerguy]

I mean, we all make one or two inadvertent mistakes. I accidentally left a space inbetween a chemical's name in my MD/PhD essay...:\

Not talking about typos, talking about a consistent misuse of punctuation. A missing period or caps happens, who cares. So long as the point is clear and it does not disrupt the flow of reading, I rarely even notice or care.

But grammar--jeesh this one kills me. Subject-verb agreement, tense, that stuff should be basic by this point if you're an adult. I've read students' essays that literally made me have to go back and reread portions of it because I wasn't sure what they were trying to say. Sentences that are just fragments, not even complete sentences--this stuff sucks. That's very frustrating as a reader. People shouldn't write professionally/academically as though they were on an internet forum or something.

People using the wrong their/they're...People not using commas and having some super long sentence...that stuff is so hard to read because you have to keep rereading portions of it to understand what they meant to say. It just wastes people's time. And the essays I read were simply for class assignments that I suspect they probably started/finished a few hours before it was due. If people did this for an application they were trying to use to show someone why they're the shiz?

 

[TeddyBoomBoom]

Do yourself a favor and stop looking at anything after you submit it.....

^^^^ This

 

[Perpetually]

👍👍

I just want to say thanks for the laugh. This post was hilarious. You're fine, nothing to worry about at all. They'll just skip over the error. The only time something like that would hurt you would be if your essay was full of grammar errors all over the place.

 

[TheMightySmiter]

Two periods?? I bet you kick puppies too.