Moment of "Oops!" while reading SOP now
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:53 pm
I have applied in quantum information/condensed matter in some top schools and also have a few back-ups. My profile is not exactly stellar, but good. (One PRA as 2nd author + more research experience in QI, 2 papers in drafting stage, 990 in PGRE and 9.7/10 GPA)
Today, while I was seeing my SOP for Caltech once again, I discovered in horror to find that I had mentioned that I want to apply to MIT in the first paragraph!
The later part of the SOP is not the same as the one i have written for MIT, though, and the second-to-last paragraph is customized for a Caltech application. Thankfully, in the last paragraph, I have correctly mentioned Caltech and IQIM, and mentioned the names of professors at Caltech with whom I would like to work during graduate school.
Caltech is my top priority, and while I know my chances aren't all that great, I have been feeling this stupid action of mine will surely be like an auto-reject. It definitely shows my carelessness, I think, but I hope it's not that bad! I pulled in an all-nighter readying the final versions of my drafts, and the first paragraph got mixed up. It's surely quite late to do anything now, I can only hope the effect isn't too much. What do you guys think of this goof-up?
(All the same, I think I might have given the admissions committee a hearty laugh.. I must really get better at organization.)
Today, while I was seeing my SOP for Caltech once again, I discovered in horror to find that I had mentioned that I want to apply to MIT in the first paragraph!
The later part of the SOP is not the same as the one i have written for MIT, though, and the second-to-last paragraph is customized for a Caltech application. Thankfully, in the last paragraph, I have correctly mentioned Caltech and IQIM, and mentioned the names of professors at Caltech with whom I would like to work during graduate school.
Caltech is my top priority, and while I know my chances aren't all that great, I have been feeling this stupid action of mine will surely be like an auto-reject. It definitely shows my carelessness, I think, but I hope it's not that bad! I pulled in an all-nighter readying the final versions of my drafts, and the first paragraph got mixed up. It's surely quite late to do anything now, I can only hope the effect isn't too much. What do you guys think of this goof-up?
(All the same, I think I might have given the admissions committee a hearty laugh.. I must really get better at organization.)