HELP!

[Blitzkrieg]

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AMCAS is only accepting 5156 characters of my essay. Wth1?!!?!?

 

[UCLA2000]

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.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

ya, but it is 5300 characters maximum...the essay, that is. only 5156 are going. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />

 

[UCLA2000]

I don't know what to tell you. Maybe they're counting the empty spaces too.

 

[Yogi Bear]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by Blitzkrieg:
•ya, but it is 5300 characters maximum...the essay, that is. only 5156 are going. 🙁•••••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.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

wth, it's still doing it, after I use MS notepad. ???? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />

 

[Sweet Tea]

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!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

gonna do it now..

 

[laviddee]

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

 

[Blitzkrieg]

YAY

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

h00ray!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

btw, tenks to all for the advice. You guys (and SDN) PWN.