Wrong name-disaster or no big deal?

[bigstygg]

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I accidentally addressed my update letter to a school I interviewed at to the wrong person (misspelled the dean of admissions name in the Dear Dr ____ part). I am guessing I should not email them to correct it at this point because it may come off as neurotic, but I am wondering if this will be viewed negatively for me or not be a huge deal. Thanks for any insight.

 

[Goro]

Xanax, stat

 

[bigstygg]

Xanax, stat

Message understood, thanks!

 

[Robin-jay]

Depends on how bad you messed the up name up.

If Dr. Woser was his name, and you E-mailed him as Dr. Loser, that would be different.

 

[bigstygg]

Depends on how bad you messed the up name up.

If Dr. Woser was his name, and you E-mailed him as Dr. Loser, that would be different.

Fortunately my typo did not create an offensive name lol

 

[mariposas905]

I accidentally addressed my update letter to a school I interviewed at to the wrong person (misspelled the dean of admissions name in the Dear Dr ____ part). I am guessing I should not email them to correct it at this point because it may come off as neurotic, but I am wondering if this will be viewed negatively for me or not be a huge deal. Thanks for any insight.

Do we usually have to address update letters to a particular person pre-II? I thought we should just put 'to the admissions committee, or to whom it may concern,' etc...

 

[freedoctor17]

Do we usually have to address update letters to a particular person pre-II? I thought we should just put 'to the admissions committee, or to whom it may concern,' etc...

That sounds fine to me

Edit: just for reference i sent an update about a publication to a school that was literally just a pdf of the citation with nothing else and i got accepted there. Not sure if the update mattered at all though because my interview there had gone pretty well so it might have not really had any effect.

 

[bigstygg]

Do we usually have to address update letters to a particular person pre-II? I thought we should just put 'to the admissions committee, or to whom it may concern,' etc...

I addressed it to the dean but either way could work. The reason I did it like this is because the dean came and spoke to us at the interview so I unsuccessfully attempted to add a personal touch. I have written some pre-II as well to a specific person and I ended up getting a II so it is an option but probably has no relevance compared to what you actually put in the letter.