personal statement 5300 characters, with or w/out spaces?

[cardsurgguy]

I know this is early, since I'm applying in June, but I was curious

I know the personal statement is 5300 characters as it says in the pdf file that I downloaded from aamc's website

is that 5300 with or without spaces, since my initial one I is over 5300 with spaces and under without spaces

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[2tall]

Are you for real?

If you are...with

 

[PhotoMD]

Also... chill out and get a life.

 

[UCLAstudent]

With

 

[cardsurgguy]

Also... chill out and get a life.

It's not as early as it sounds.

I'm currently a grad student and am not in finals or classes now since I'm in the middle of a 6 week break I have until school starts again in the first few days of january

from then onto June 1st, I'm going to be working full time on the required internship for my program, as well as taking a full load of courses at school
I may very well be working over 40 hours per week in addition to school
school doesn't get out until June 15th for me b/c of the trimester schedule I'm on

so it's not like I'm writing my personal statement now for fun (believe me, I got better things to do), I'm doing it because I'm going to be very busy in terms of time once the new year starts, and figured I'd write it now while there is no school and I'm only working 50-60 hours a week

it might help knowing details before telling somebody to get a life, and I do have a life that I'm very happy with thank you...

 

[Cat's Meow]

It's not as early as it sounds.

I'm currently a grad student and am not in finals or classes now since I'm in the middle of a 6 week break I have until school starts again in the first few days of january

from then onto June 1st, I'm going to be working full time on the required internship for my program, as well as taking a full load of courses at school
I may very well be working over 40 hours per week in addition to school
school doesn't get out until June 15th for me b/c of the trimester schedule I'm on

so it's not like I'm writing my personal statement now for fun (believe me, I got better things to do), I'm doing it because I'm going to be very busy in terms of time once the new year starts, and figured I'd write it now while there is no school and I'm only working 50-60 hours a week

it might help knowing details before telling somebody to get a life, and I do have a life that I'm very happy with thank you...

For real. There are a lot of haters on these threads.

 

[vikaskoth]

I know this is early, since I'm applying in June, but I was curious

I know the personal statement is 5300 characters as it says in the pdf file that I downloaded from aamc's website

is that 5300 with or without spaces, since my initial one I is over 5300 with spaces and under without spaces

the limit is 5300 charac with spaces. However every time you hit return, or when you paste it into amcas moving from one line to the next counts as two characters. This is not counted the same way in Microsoft word. I had around 5280 with spaces according to Word, and was ready to submit it, but when i pasted it, the amcas count came out to 5320 something, so just make sure you paste it just to see how many charac are tacked on by their 2 charac return policy. I didn't put two spaces after periods, and had to quickly cut out longer words for shorter synonyms.

 

[PhotoMD]

My apologies, it was my fault to assume you were the typical ugrad with a lot of time on his hands. A lot of ugrads have blinders on where all they can see is the med school light at the end of the tunnel, forgetting why they are pursuing it in the first place. So again, sorry.

 

[Cat's Meow]

My apologies, it was my fault to assume you were the typical ugrad with a lot of time on his hands. A lot of ugrads have blinders on where all they can see is the med school light at the end of the tunnel, forgetting why they are pursuing it in the first place. So again, sorry.

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[2tall]

there are always opportunities to be more concise when writing. cardsurg, cut out a sentence and you shouldn't have any problems next year.

5300 characters in ms word does not always equate to the space amcas provides.

and don't use a day - it comes out as a question mark for some reason. annoyed the heck outta me.

 

[synapse lapse]

For real. There are a lot of haters on these threads.

I hate you.

 

[manfood.com]

I'm glad at least you apologized, but still who cares if he was an undergrad. He needed some help and some people gave him was some smart lip service. hope you get what you need man in regards to that personal statement.

 

[DeterminedMD]

Just so you know for all those secondaries you will be sending out, when they say:

Characters=letters AND spaces included
Words=just the number of words

 

[Cat's Meow]

I hate you.

I hope someone craps on your face 🙂 👍

 

[virilep]

i think it's a good idea to start thinking about ur PS. start brainstorming ideas and stuff. but Vikas is right. i thought the PS was the hardest part of everything...except the MCAT obviously. but yeah. make sure like 3-4 ppl read it for content and grammar. gluck!

 

[Homer Doughnuts]

It's not as early as it sounds.

I'm currently a grad student and am not in finals or classes now since I'm in the middle of a 6 week break I have until school starts again in the first few days of january

from then onto June 1st, I'm going to be working full time on the required internship for my program, as well as taking a full load of courses at school
I may very well be working over 40 hours per week in addition to school
school doesn't get out until June 15th for me b/c of the trimester schedule I'm on

so it's not like I'm writing my personal statement now for fun (believe me, I got better things to do), I'm doing it because I'm going to be very busy in terms of time once the new year starts, and figured I'd write it now while there is no school and I'm only working 50-60 hours a week

it might help knowing details before telling somebody to get a life, and I do have a life that I'm very happy with thank you...

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