Avoid Application Typos: Your College Essay Guide #shorts
19 Sept 2026 · 1 min
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A misspelled word in your opening paragraph signals carelessness to admissions officers. One student wrote
A misspelled word in your opening paragraph signals carelessness to admissions officers. One student wrote
Sabotage number 7, submitting an application with typos in the very first paragraph. I've personally seen a student write, I'm extremely passionate about this collage, and that was in the opening line of the essay to that college. Not a metaphor, an actual typo in the actual first sentence about the actual school they were applying to. Look, Everyone makes mistakes, but sloppy errors— misspelled school names, leftover placeholder text, the wrong pronoun from a recycled essay— tell an admissions reader something specific. This student did not care enough to proofread the one document that represents them to a stranger making a life-altering decision. It takes 20 minutes to read your application out loud before you hit submit. 20 minutes. Do it.
