Grammar Mistake on Supplemental

[dentite24]

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I somehow made a fairly noticeable grammar mistake on one of my supplemental application essays.

Is the best course of action to email the admissions of that school and ask them if I can fix while also apologizing for making the mistake?

 

[fit2]

You might die now...

No seriously i wouldn't worry about it! like someone said ...once u submit u never go back and check because there's no point.
Most likely adcoms will read over your mistake...they don't analyze your essays. If they do notice it, it's gonna be okay. it's just one grammatical mistake. I found 1-2 in all my secondaries but it's fine. it won't make a difference. IMO writing to them will be like overkill...all because of a letter or 2 letters

 

[FeralisExtremum]

The best course of action is to do nothing. Don't overthink it, it's only a grammar error.

 

[goprodent2]

What fit2 said, never go back and check. You'll just end up hating yourself for it. Only time I would check is if I was invited for an interview. By then, you know they like you, so I would just refresh my memory of what I wrote down.

 

[dentite24]

Well, i somehow never noticed when I was proofreading that I have a question mark instead of an apostrophe, which I don't even know how I could have missed.
You don't think it would be a good idea to admit to the admissions that it was a stupid mistake? I feel like otherwise it does just look really sloppy, because it was a hard error to miss, even though I did.

 

[Life of Pablo]

Well, i somehow never noticed when I was proofreading that I have a question mark instead of an apostrophe, which I don't even know how I could have missed.
You don't think it would be a good idea to admit to the admissions that it was a stupid mistake? I feel like otherwise it does just look really sloppy, because it was a hard error to miss, even though I did.

No let it be. A small grammatical mistake won't make or break your application. Now, if your essay is littered with mistakes then you have a problem. One mistake is fine.

 

[HatInTheCat]

You will be fine. I had a few typos, and I got accepted into multiple schools! Your readers aren't English teachers, so as long as you get to the point clearly, you should be fine


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[doc toothache]

The best course of action is to do nothing. Don't overthink it, it's only a grammar error.

Oops! Kind of like only a slip of the burr.

 

[chives_irvine]

I know everyone says its fine and you most likely will be. HOWEVER, at some of the pre-dental lecture series classes at my school, we have had several members of different adcoms come visit and present. Almost every one of them said that they have thrown out an application over grammar issues or typos because there are so many strong applications and sometimes that is what distinguishes them.
It is true that you should never go back and check after because it is out of your power now, but for this reason, we NEED to make sure that we don't make dumb mistakes and that we do sweat the small stuff.

 

[fit2]

I know everyone says its fine and you most likely will be. HOWEVER, at some of the pre-dental lecture series classes at my school, we have had several members of different adcoms come visit and present. Almost every one of them said that they have thrown out an application over grammar issues or typos because there are so many strong applications and sometimes that is what distinguishes them.
It is true that you should never go back and check after because it is out of your power now, but for this reason, we NEED to make sure that we don't make dumb mistakes and that we do sweat the small stuff.

still....i will never understand the comparison between a clinical error and a grammatical error. they're not nearly the same thing so comparing them just doesn't work