Minor personal statement revision--bad idea?

[kattyboomboom]

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I already submitted my ERAS apps, all have been downloaded...

I reread my PS and want to change the wording on one sentence. It's a minor thing. Should I go ahead and do it or will it annoy programs because my apps are already downloaded?

Thanks.

 

[gutonc]

I already submitted my ERAS apps, all have been downloaded...

I reread my PS and want to change the wording on one sentence. It's a minor thing. Should I go ahead and do it or will it annoy programs because my apps are already downloaded?

Thanks.

Unless you're adding the word 'not' to the following sentence: "The jury decided that I was guilty of murdering my husband and boss and keeping their dismembered bodies in the basement freezer." you should just leave it alone.

 

[tfom08]

I revised mine about a week after I first submitted. I think it was slightly over a page originally so I just cut a couple sentences and made it fit under a page. I still am not sure exactly if it was or wasn't under a page before I made the change, but when I looked at my PS online and hit print preview, it came out as 2 pages. So that's what I did. I didn't talk about the murder/dismemberment case that I was acquitted on because I don't think it's anyone's business since technically it's not on my record, but if I had, I think that would be an even better reason to edit.

 

[Blesbok]

You can do it, but short of the wording being so bad that it insults the PD's mother or religion, I don't think it will make a difference.

 

[Seville]

Is it that big of a deal to have it be over a page long? I mean, will they stop reading at the end of one page or something? I keep hearing this one page limit. Mine went over by 2-3 sentences and I just couldn't cut any more out (I had a leave of absence and needed to explain that).

 

[mcl]

Is it that big of a deal to have it be over a page long? I mean, will they stop reading at the end of one page or something? I keep hearing this one page limit. Mine went over by 2-3 sentences and I just couldn't cut any more out (I had a leave of absence and needed to explain that).

Personal Statements are an inexact art. It's not likely that anyone will complain about a few sentences on the second page

 

[Seville]

Personal Statements are an inexact art. It's not likely that anyone will complain about a few sentences on the second page

Ok, cool. I just suddenly had this fear that they only print out one page and read that. I know, completely irrational, but that's what this process does to you.

 

[JayQuah]

I already submitted my ERAS apps, all have been downloaded...

I reread my PS and want to change the wording on one sentence. It's a minor thing. Should I go ahead and do it or will it annoy programs because my apps are already downloaded?

Thanks.

I added one word to the last paragraph of mine two weeks after submitting...and i feel GREAT!

 

[willow18]

I'm debating something similar, but in my case it's a spelling mistake; I wrote "breath of knowledge" instead of "breadth...". A PD and our associate dean who reviewed my PS didn't notice it, but I feel a it's a juvenile mistake that shouldn't be there. Hmmm...