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[USArmyDoc]

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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. 😡

 

[SOUNDMAN]

Yes this was very frustrating, imho.

 

[dr.z]

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. 😡

I hear you. It was very frustrating.

 

[yunan]

ughhh i havent sent out my aacomas yet.

so i have to cut it down, or it definitely wont fit? i've about 660 words and 3824 characters with space.

look here to see my PS, and please critique it if you can and see how i can cut it down.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=213966

 

[USArmyDoc]

Yea, you have to cut it down 800+ characters or it will not let you submit. Btw, good Personal statement.

 

[nerdgrrl]

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.

 

[Buckeye(OH)]

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.

 

[Dorkus Maximus]

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! 🙂

 

[CTG]

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?

 

[SOUNDMAN]

I didn't, that will be drowned in the secondaries

 

[USArmyDoc]

Yea, I have been told the explanation "why DO" is for the secondaries.