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Any of you guys who did your PS for AMCAS and AACOMAS annoyed that you need to cut it down to fit into their stupid 3,000 character limit. I did my AMCAS and submitted it but I am trying to trim my DO PS down to the proper limit. I do not think I have affected my overall statement but still. 😡
 
USArmyDoc said:
Any of you guys who did your PS for AMCAS and AACOMAS annoyed that you need to cut it down to fit into their stupid 3,000 character limit. I did my AMCAS and submitted it but I am trying to trim my DO PS down to the proper limit. I do not think I have affected my overall statement but still. 😡
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I hear you. It was very frustrating.
 
Yea, you have to cut it down 800+ characters or it will not let you submit. Btw, good Personal statement.
 
I'm hating it. 500 words is nothing. and everything they expect you to put into it!! I'm having a very hard time cutting. so hard that apparently I can't make a coherent post.

I should be working.
 
Last year, I got so frustrated and wasted so much time trying to cut my MD statement down to DO length that I ended up just scrapping it and writing a totally new PS.
 
I'm was in the same boat! I ended up writing two totally different statements for DO and MD as well. What's worse, I wrote my statment in Microsoft Word, which said it was 2999 characters including spaces, but when I pasted it into the AACOMAS box, it said it was over 3000. I ended up taking out about two whole sentences before it would let me save it. Good luck! 🙂
 
i already asked this in another thread, but in case no one answers, do we have to address "why d.o." in the personal statement? b/c i'm using a cut-down version of my amcas ps and i don't have room to talk about why osteopathic...what do you guys think?
 
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