If I, hypothetically, messed up my essay formatting...

Question

Hypothetically, if, in theory, an application says to bold the prompt and, allegedly, an applicant bolded "Essay 1:" and then wrote the rest of the prompt in italics. How much should the applicant throw up in disgust with themselves?

jonny1986 · Answer

Any business school that would reject an otherwise solid candidate solely on such an oversight is not worthy of your concern.

MBAPrepCoach · Answer

Only part of your application is in italics, and that isn't a bother to many people anyways.

If you submitted your application in word then there's nothing to worry about, they can completely change everything.

But even if you submitted them as a PDF, really no point to worry about it now.

I'm sure there were a lot of wonderful great pieces of content in there that you can focus on instead. Stay positive.

Farrell Dyan Hehn, MBA
Admissions Consultant & Verbal Strategist MBAPrepCoach.com

MBADecoder · Answer

If your essay content is great, I'd say the adcom would not pay too much attention to your overlooking minor instructions.
All the best, and don't fret over it. At the same time, be careful in your other applications.

redfield · Answer

I appreciate the reassurance everyone. I believe I did well in the application and I certainly spent the hours upon hours so it was just disappointing to see given all the work I put into it this one mistake and would it capsize the whole thing. I'm glad to hear you all don't believe so though I suppose it is what it is at this point I was just curious of the damage I had done.

If I, hypothetically, messed up my essay formatting...

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