Personal Statement Question

[Drandall92]

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I'm sorry, this is a dumb question, but I want to start working on my personal statement but I don't know what the letter character requirement is. How long is it supposed to be? Is there anyway to see the EXACT instructions/prompt for the personal statement that AMCAS will have when the application opens? Will they change the character length at all if I write my personal statement now? Any information will help. Thank you!

 

[Ad2b]

I'm sorry, this is a dumb question, but I want to start working on my personal statement but I don't know what the letter character requirement is. How long is it supposed to be? Is there anyway to see the EXACT instructions/prompt for the personal statement that AMCAS will have when the application opens? Will they change the character length at all if I write my personal statement now? Any information will help. Thank you!

Repost your question in the normal forum section. This is just for reader list. (Question is not dumb; just in wrong part)

In addition, the original post HAS the answers to your questions as does the AAMC itself. 😉

 

[WedgeDawg]

I made it a new thread for you!

 

[Ad2b]

Thanks, Wedge 🙂

 

[ChrisMack390]

It's 5300 characters (counts spaces). The statement should address the simple question "Why do you want to be a physician?"

 

[ChrisMack390]

And no formatting. Plain text as that is the way the system will process it and print it out for adcoms. Set your word processor to save text

Gonnif, does that mean no indenting paragraphs? What about putting a space between paragraphs?

 

[Ad2b]

@ChrisMack390 - spaces between paragraphs, no indentation.

Last year, I took the PS from Word, copy/pasted into AMCAS and it was a different count # than Word. I adjusted the formatting in the AMCAS app, copy/pasted from there BACK into Word to see if there were any issues with typos, etc post-adjustment.

When I was done being AR, I copy/pasted back into AMCAS, saved, printed out in the .pdf form to ensure I was happy with it.