How do I get rid of the ? marks in my AMCAS APP?

[Premed2003]

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Even when I type my essay and post-secondary experiences right onto the online AMCAS app, ? marks appear whenever there would be an apostrophe. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Thanks

 

[NineSixteen]

I never did figure out how to fix that last year, they just stayed in my essay...along with the run-on paragraphs and other formatting that was lost, I think schools understand that this is beyond your control.

{edit} Oh, I just remembered, at one interview the faculty member showed me the "official" application that they get from AMCAS and those formatting issues that were on my print-out weren't on the school?s (hee hee) version. So a second reason not to fret, my pet 🙂

 

[Doctora Foxy]

Also, it would be a good idea to take out any apostrafes that are used in contractions, b/c I learned it is always bad to use contractions in essays. 😛 But if you need to keep the apostrafes for possesive words (or whatever they're called), it won't be a problem according to NineSixteen. 😀

 

[applicant2003]

I typed mine in Word then copied it to notepad, reformatted it, and copied it from notepad into the application and did not have any problems. So you might try that. I did have ?'s show up in places where my official AMCAS grade should have come up. So the application only calculated my GPA for about half the classes I took. I called about it and they said it has happened to a lot of people and I just have to submit it and they'll go through and enter the grades. They seem to be having a lot of problems with the application in general. Guess that is why the date to submit has been moved back? Good luck.

 

[Yogi Bear]

just edit the entries in your amcas app to replace [?] w/ ["] or [']

 

[Premed2003]

Thanks. Unfortunately, when I typed it directly into the space, it still had question marks. But, I figured it out. I deleted the whole thing and clicked "add" to rewrite it. I think it wasn't taking the corrections when I edited post-secondaries that I had already finished.

 

[Tweetie_bird]

Premed,
there's a whole thread we have put up for AMCAS questions, yet I keep seeing you posting AMCAS questions in separate threads. Anyway, it's your choice, I can't tell you what to do, but perhaps you might get more responses to your questions if you put it up there instead?? ::sigh:: I'm just being a pain b/c I am judging you based on your "ivy league comment." And then I saw you posting the SAME thread in two different forums, like one wasn't enough?? Anyway, like I said it's a free country and what you do is your choice.

Just a thought from a fellow SDN'er. 🙂