Really obvious typo in primary AMCAS application after submission...

[physiologist]

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I looked over my personal statement around 12 times before I submitted it. I even looked at the document I had copy-pasted it from directly. I didn't see a typo. It may have most likely occurred during an "over the character limit" bit where the interface eats up letters by mistake.

The first word of my sixth paragraph looked like this:

"Transformin g"

I'm afraid the adcoms are going to think I am the least astute person in the universe. I'm still baffled by how I let that slide.

Any advice? Do you know of anyone who got AMCAS to fix it for them?

UPDATE: Yeah, it's obviously a glitch. I just downloaded the pdf of my app and the typo is not there. The typo is, however, in the HTML version. This is super-weird.

UPDATE 2: Just called AMCAS. They said the PDF format is what counts, and my pdf format does not contain the error. Super sigh of relief.

 

[DAPI]

I looked over my personal statement around 12 times before I submitted it. I even looked at the document I had copy-pasted it from directly. I didn't see a typo. It may have most likely occurred during an "over the character limit" bit where the interface eats up letters by mistake.

The first word of my sixth paragraph looked like this:

"Transformin g"

I'm afraid the adcoms are going to think I am the least astute person in the universe. I'm still baffled by how I let that slide.

Any advice? Do you know of anyone who got AMCAS to fix it for them?

This actually seems to be a somewhat common problem with AMCAS. It seems to add random spaces in the PS after you hit submit. There was a thread on this a while back and quite a few people posted about it. I think adcoms probable know about it so I would not worry.

 

[ShenanigansMD]

I've heard that most schools reject any applicants who put out-of-place spaces in their personal statement.

 

[physiologist]

@DAPI - Yeah! I honestly think that's what happened in my case because I didn't edit a thing after I copy/pasted from my word document, and when I looked at the exact word document that I pasted, I didn't find the typo. I even looked over the text while previewing my app before submitting and caught nothing. I was the editor of so many papers and journals starting in high school. Thanks for the heads-up. I feel a lot less headdesky now.

 

[rodlops]

I remember attending a conference where there were a few adcom people. Someone asked them the same thing. They both agreed that if that's the only problem, it's not going to hurt you.