Personal Statement Format

[the prodogy]

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I'm having a problem with the format of my personal statement. When I entered my personal statement, everything is being shown as one big paragraph. Why did this happen? I just copied and pasted it from word, and when I looked at it before entering it, it turned out just fine. But now, I already submitted my application. Anyway to fix this?

 

[da Vincis World]

I'm having a problem with the format of my personal statement. When I entered my personal statement, everything is being shown as one big paragraph. Why did this happen? I just copied and pasted it from word, and when I looked at it before entering it, it turned out just fine. But now, I already submitted my application. Anyway to fix this?

The only way to change it now would be to contact AACOMAS. They let me make a change after I submitted.

 

[the prodogy]

Now that I look at it, even my job description is all messed up. I used bullets to describe the job such as:

-Made cash transactions
-Helped customers do whatever

But it turned out as:

-Made cash transactions -Helped customers do whatever

Why did all of this happen?

 

[scummie]

It's the wonderfulness that is AACOMAS. Several people had this happen to them before/during the verification process. AACOMAS's response was that everything would display properly after the verification. Like another poster said, you could always contact them to change if it doesn't end up working out correctly.

 

[CopToEM]

Well, not to get too technical, but as a guy who does website development I can explain. It's about formatting. When you copy and paste from Word into almost any WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) box, like the one here on SDN, Word takes a lot of extra junk along with it.

Stick to plain text formatting and using - as bullets and make sure you copy from Word into Notepad (or similar on mac) to remove all the extra characters. When the data is transferred from the WYSIWYG editors on these application sites and inserted into the database the encoding is not the same as what Word places on it. Thus, you lose some of your special characters, line breaks, etc.

I'd just contact them - it's not like you're trying to make a huge change just concerned about professionalism. I can't imagine them not allowing this change to take place.

 

[the prodogy]

I'm still having a problem with the formatting. I tried e-mailing them and I separated the paragraphs with two enters, trying to ensure everything was ok. I used two enters to separate the paragraphs instead of the tab, thinking that maybe the tab key doesn't work for some reason. They emailed me back saying everything was fixed, but when I checked it, it was still one big paragraph. So I looked at my e-mail and everything that I e-mailed them was also in one big paragraph. Whats the problem?

 

[forrealz]

that happened to me back in July, once my application got verified, my paragraphs turned out just fine. don't worry about it, i know many other people who also had the same issue.

 

[skybliss]

Ya, this happened to me in July too. I emailed them, and they said that it just displays without line breaks, but when sent to schools, it's fine.

Incidentally, when I see a pdf preview, it still doesn't have line breaks, and I wouldn't be surprised if the pdf preview is what schools end up seeing. In any case, apparently it happens to everyone.