Spelt a word wrong on personal statement....awkward

Hey everyone. I know this is a ridiculous mistake to make, but I am applying to do English Lit and on my personal statement I misspelt "Hemingway" (spelt it with two m's.) To make matters worse, Hemingway is one of my favourite authors, and I even said that in the personal statement!!! AND IT WAS SENT THIS MORNING.

My question is, wanting to be an English student, and misspelling one of my FAVOURITE AUTHORS, would the university reject my application on grounds of that one, albeit very important, spelling mistake? I feel ridiculous.

I must have been writing that part very late at night...

Hey everyone. I know this is a ridiculous mistake to make, but I am applying to do English Lit and on my personal statement I misspelt "Hemingway" (spelt it with two m's.) To make matters worse, Hemingway is one of my favourite authors, and I even said that in the personal statement!!! AND IT WAS SENT THIS MORNING.

My question is, wanting to be an English student, and misspelling one of my FAVOURITE AUTHORS, would the university reject my application on grounds of that one, albeit very important, spelling mistake? I feel ridiculous.

I must have been writing that part very late at night...

AND IT WAS SENT THIS MORNING.
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It's not a huge mistake though. If you had spelt it like "Haminway" or something, then they would be like "wtf?!" but I doubt it will make any difference in the way you did. Tbh, they have so many PS to look at, they probably won't notice

Good luck with your application

I'm sure this is why the vast majority of teachers, current and past students, advisers, TSRians etc all suggest proofreading. Anyway I don't think it will make them reject you instantly if the rest of your application is strong but it definitely will be noticed. Good luck with the applications.

Are you still at college? If your college still needs to provide your reference they can return it to you so you get your PS corrected.

Then it will still be with your referee and can be sent back to you for correction, if you ask. If it has been forwarded by your referee already, just forget it and get on with your studies.

At least you didn't do a Mariah Carey - "Ken Lee" type job on it.

If it's going to be an issue, you could send an email to the admissions tutor with an updated copy. Just mention that you wanted to make a change and would rather they use that one in their admissions process.

stop zoning on the negative I am sure it will be overlooked ..keeping my fingers crossed for you ! best of luck!

you could send an email to the admissions tutor with an updated copy. Just mention that you wanted to make a change and would rather they use that one in their admissions process.

...All this does is tell the admissions tutor that you are unable to distinguish between something that is important and something that is trivial, and it wastes his time on something trivial.

Haha this is true! thank you very much.



yeah my tutor said it was a pretty strong application, and the PS was also very good. Believe me, I've been to see my tutor almost every day to check up on my application and proof read everything - he even helped me re-word that particular paragraph a little so he would have surely noticed too. It's only when i copied the statement into a text to my mum that my iphone spell-check picked up on it! haha whats done is done.







to all three of these quotes - it has been sent off to UCAS themselves, not just my college. oops! I could do the admissions tutor email. Or, I could not worry too much about it, as it was a minor mistake and barely noticeable in the bulk of the statement.....!

You are the second person in 24 hours to suggest on TSR that someone draws attention to a trivial typing error by trying to get the universities to accept a correction. All this does is tell the admissions tutor that you are unable to distinguish between something that is important and something that is trivial, and it wastes his time on something trivial.

The same works for any sort of mistake or correction.

Perhaps a grade was changed or an event was updated and you need to make the personal statement correct again?

Point is: Don't say "I mis-spelt all these words", just word it nicely and say something along the lines of "I have made corrections to my personal statement and it is now a more current version. Please consider this in the application process". Job done.

Er, no. An important correction, say to a declared grade, or to some other factual inaccuracy is both worthy of and compulsory to change.



Or, to paraphrase what you have written, I just wanted to draw your attention to my ineptitude in writing my PS, and my inability to work out what is important in an application. I now demand you leave your other important work to give me a chance that the other candidates don't have (namely to rewrite it), and I promise I won't be like this if you give me an offer. Honest.

For a personal statement helper, you should probably encourage people to deliver the best personal statement they can to universities.

Or, I could not worry too much about it, as it was a minor mistake and barely noticeable in the bulk of the statement.....!

stop zoning on the negative I am sure it will be overlooked ..keeping my fingers crossed for you ! best of luck!