TYPOS in personal Statement

[RNtoPharmD]

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I just noticed that I had 1 typo in personal statement.
Forgot the space between the nound and verb to be "is".
I am so worried.... coz I can't change it any more 🙁

I hope pharmacy school won't take it so seriously.

Anyone made typos or grammatical errors in the application?

 

[cystapharm]

Are you sure thats all the typo you made?

 

[piyi]

I just noticed that I had 1 typos in personal statement.
Forgot the space between the nound and verb to be "is".
I am so worried.... coz I can't change it any more 🙁

I hope pharmacy school won't take it so seriously.

Anyone made typos or grammatical errors in the application?

Did you just forget the space between the noun and verb, or did forget a word between the noun and verb?? Kind of confused.

Ideally, you'd want to turn in a perfect paper free of any grammatical errors/typos. I just can't imagine them turning you away just for one error like that.

And I don't think I made any egregious errors in my application. I read it over about sixty times and had a couple other people read it. Hopefully we caught everything. But you never know... some errors are awfully hard to catch!

 

[binghamkid]

I just noticed that I had 1 typos in personal statement.
Forgot the space between the nound and verb to be "is".
I am so worried.... coz I can't change it any more 🙁

I hope pharmacy school won't take it so seriously.

Anyone made typos or grammatical errors in the application?

If you're sure you only had one typo, the adcoms won't base your acceptance on one error. On the other hand, if it is evident that you didn't polish up your statement, it would become an issue. But a space? I wouldn't stress over it, I'm sure there are bigger things on their mind while considering your application.

Of course, it would have been best if it weren't there, but you can't change what you can't change right? so don't stress about it =) Just focus on what you can change, and that's the supplemental application, your LORs, and your preparation for your future interview.

 

[RNtoPharmD]

Did you just forget the space between the noun and verb, or did forget a word between the noun and verb?? Kind of confused.

Between the noun and the "verb-to-be" (is, am, are).

So it was written as "nounis _______" instead of "noun is ______"

I read it sixty times too...🙂 BUT... It happens because of my final attempt to edit the essay right before I sent it... I must have accidentally hit the backspace button 🙁 when I was trying to make it a paragraph format and put the indentation on it...

The Pharmcas word processing screen sucks..I couldn't preview my statement easily.... The essay lost its paragraph format when copying from word document...

I had the sense of doom.. After submitting my personal statement yesterday, I went to work right away with the thought about the typo haunting me all night.. It is one of the worst night at work with the unrealistic thought that my my job is like a mafia organization and "something" prevented me to better myself and go to pharmacy schools.. I stuck myself with the needle (clean one) at work ... Silly eastern idea about Karma and predestination.

But I can't succumb to it..have to fight back.

 

[RNtoPharmD]

you can't change what you can't change right? so don't stress about it =) Just focus on what you can change, and that's the supplemental application, your LORs, and your preparation for your future interview.

LORs is out of my control...

The only things I can change now are PCAT score and essays on supplemental application...

Thanks you all for mental support for this member with OCD 😛

 

[RNtoPharmD]

If you're sure you only had one typo, the adcoms won't base your acceptance on one error.

yeah... After submitting it, I read it once... and that's the only one I found.. And I won't go back and read it anymore... I can't change it anyway. 😛

 

[binghamkid]

LORs is out of my control...

The only things I can change now are PCAT score and essays on supplemental application...

Thanks you all for mental support for this member with OCD 😛

Actually, you are still in control of LORs unless they've already been selected and submitted. While you don't have control over the actual content, you can still pick individuals who will write you terrific LORs.

 

[RNtoPharmD]

Actually, you are still in control of LORs unless they've already been selected and submitted. While you don't have control over the actual content, you can still pick individuals who will write you terrific LORs.

Thanks for comment... But I have trouble finding enough LOR myself..:|

Initially, I thought I could only obtain two LORs and have to eliminate the school that require up to 3 LORs.

Finally, I asked my Biology professor who taught me 4-year-ago in community college to be my 3rd reference🙂 because some schools required 3rd preference from science professor.... I am out off school for a while and I am not acquainted with anyway science professor (especially coz my degree is not science-related)

I wonder if I should even asked him as my 3rd preference..coz..he is not acquainted with me at all...🙂

But anyway, the idea of retaking science classes in the fall for simply just for reference from science professor is too late and may not be necessary.

 

[nabee]

Don't worry about it. I had a big typo in my application last year (not in the personal statement- but in the "work history" part of the PharmCAS app), and I still got into all the schools I applied to.

 

[RNtoPharmD]

Don't worry about it. I had a big typo in my application last year (not in the personal statement- but in the "work history" part of the PharmCAS app), and I still got into all the schools I applied to.

Congratulation!
Yeah.. but personal statement is the part that most adcoms have to read. it's a part of consideration..

 

[fmbzp5]

Personally if a school was so picky as to accept or reject based on one minor mistake, then I would rather not attend such a school that required such perfection.

my guess would be that they receive these problems every year due to what you stated earlier, when you cut and paste it into pharmcas, the paper becomes misaligned.


You'd think with all of the money they take in there, someone be able to program the system to allow for a word document to be uploaded and it would fill in for the applicant automatically.

 

[RNtoPharmD]

Personally if a school was so picky as to accept or reject based on one minor mistake, then I would rather not attend such a school that required such perfection.

my guess would be that they receive these problems every year due to what you stated earlier, when you cut and paste it into pharmcas, the paper becomes misaligned.


You'd think with all of the money they take in there, someone be able to program the system to allow for a word document to be uploaded and it would fill in for the applicant automatically.

Thanks for your comments. I would be worry less if I apply to business and engineering school besides medical field... But they have idea that pharmacists has to pay meticulous attention to details .. but we are human .. we makes mistake 🙂

Anyway, I can't go back to change it..