Essay Grammar

[mbaguy513]

So I have submitted apps to HBS, Stanford, Wharton and Kellogg already and I plan on submitting to Columbia tonight.

Today I made a horrifying discovery. I have a great community service story that deals with getting executive buy-off within my firm. I have used this story in an essay for every school. In this story, I use the phrase "affecting change in an organization". Although I have had many people read over my essays, today I realized that what I wanted to say was "effecting change in an organization". Apparently they are both valid english phrases but they just mean different things. "Affecting change" means influencing change whereas "effecting change" means causing change. Needless to say, I am crushed. I feel that I am a decent writer, and that the rest of my essays should be mistake free. However, I just feel like this grammar mistake is going to make me look stupid and be a big knock against me.

I have applied to top schools who obviously will be sifting through many applications this year. Did I just automatically get rejected at all the schools I mentioned? Am I over reacting or is this as bad as I think it is?

I know there is nothing I can do now, but I just want to know how big of a deal it is.

Any info would be helpfully.

Thanks in advance

[MBA Mission]

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So I have submitted apps to HBS, Stanford, Wharton and Kellogg already and I plan on submitting to Columbia tonight.

Today I made a horrifying discovery. I have a great community service story that deals with getting executive buy-off within my firm. I have used this story in an essay for every school. In this story, I use the phrase "affecting change in an organization". Although I have had many people read over my essays, today I realized that what I wanted to say was "effecting change in an organization". Apparently they are both valid english phrases but they just mean different things. "Affecting change" means influencing change whereas "effecting change" means causing change. Needless to say, I am crushed. I feel that I am a decent writer, and that the rest of my essays should be mistake free. However, I just feel like this grammar mistake is going to make me look stupid and be a big knock against me.

I have applied to top schools who obviously will be sifting through many applications this year. Did I just automatically get rejected at all the schools I mentioned? Am I over reacting or is this as bad as I think it is?

I know there is nothing I can do now, but I just want to know how big of a deal it is.

Any info would be helpfully.

Thanks in advance