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  1. Blitzkrieg

    Blitzkrieg 1K Member
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    AMCAS is only accepting 5156 characters of my essay. Wth1?!!?!?
     
    #1 Blitzkrieg, Jul 1, 2002
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  2. UCLA2000

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    Relax. Take a deep breath. The AMCAS program only allows a certain amount of characters to be submitted. Your essay is too damn long. Make it shorter. Find ways to cut out superfluous information, and condense what you have.
     
    #2 UCLA2000, Jul 1, 2002
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    ya, but it is 5300 characters maximum...the essay, that is. only 5156 are going. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />
     
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    I don't know what to tell you. Maybe they're counting the empty spaces too.
     
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    </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Blitzkrieg:
    <strong>ya, but it is 5300 characters maximum...the essay, that is. only 5156 are going. :(</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">it's probably taking some extra characters that originte from formatting specifications. copy/paste into MS Notepad. save file. open the text file, copy/paste again.
     
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    wth, it's still doing it, after I use MS notepad. ???? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />
     
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    i know this is annoying, but have you tried just typing it into the application? maybe you're having troubles when you copy and paste... just a suggestion!
     
    #7 Sweet Tea, Jul 1, 2002
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    gonna do it now..
     
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    this happened with me also..
    there are some codes in there that make it really long.
    what worked for me is this..

    i copied and pasted into a new word doc. saved it as a text file.
    then opened the text file. copied and pasted it into note pad. and then copied and pasted it from note pad into amcas - and it worked!

    try it!
    dave
     
    #9 laviddee, Jul 1, 2002
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    YAY

    typed it in: 5291 characters, was 5306, but cut out a word or two.

    h00ray!
     
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    btw, tenks to all for the advice. You guys (and SDN) PWN.
     
    #11 Blitzkrieg, Jul 1, 2002
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