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Tricks for making 2 pg PS
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:57 am
by private_ryan
I've searched the forums and the general consensus is that personal statements should ideally be no more than 2 pgs for most schools. What about using 'tricks' to make it 2, such as decreasing spacing to 1.75, margins to .75, etc? Has anyone tried this?
Re: Tricks for making 2 pg PS
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:01 am
by DearCan
private_ryan wrote:I've searched the forums and the general consensus is that personal statements should ideally be no more than 2 pgs for most schools. What about using 'tricks' to make it 2, such as decreasing spacing to 1.75, margins to .75, etc? Has anyone tried this?
General consensus is also that adcomms do not like trickery. If you try to pull a fast one they'll notice and won't appreciate it.
Re: Tricks for making 2 pg PS
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:04 am
by Grizz
Editing is your friend.
Re: Tricks for making 2 pg PS
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:27 am
by bk1
private_ryan wrote:I've searched the forums and the general consensus is that personal statements should ideally be no more than 2 pgs for most schools. What about using 'tricks' to make it 2, such as decreasing spacing to 1.75, margins to .75, etc? Has anyone tried this?
Try reading 8000 essays that are all 1" margins and double spaced, then tell me how easy it is to spot the idiot who tried to dodge this.
Re: Tricks for making 2 pg PS
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:02 pm
by kalvano
Without having read your PS or knowing you at all, I can guarantee it's possible to edit it down to 2 pages with no "trickery".
Re: Tricks for making 2 pg PS
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:24 pm
by AreJay711
You can use some "tricks". I cut mine down a few lines by altering the settings in windows and turning off orphan control and by turning off the add-space-between-paragraphs option. I think those are ok: if you don't have Microsoft then they aren't necessarily standard. But messing with the margins is painfully obvious.