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LSAC Changes My Personal Statement Length

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:34 am
by kertz
Hi guys,

I'm running into an odd problem, and was wondering if any of you have experienced it and can help me out. When I upload my personal statement to LSAC, the length slightly increases. The statement has one-inch margins and fits onto two pages when I look at it on my computer, but when I upload it, one lined gets pushed to the third page. I wrote the statement on Apple Pages and exported it to a Word doc, but both as a .pages and .doc file, the statement is two pages before upload.

Does anyone know how to deal with this?

Re: LSAC Changes My Personal Statement Length

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:38 am
by Ruxin1
kertz wrote:Hi guys,

I'm running into an odd problem, and was wondering if any of you have experienced it and can help me out. When I upload my personal statement to LSAC, the length slightly increases. The statement has one-inch margins and fits onto two pages when I look at it on my computer, but when I upload it, one lined gets pushed to the third page. I wrote the statement on Apple Pages and exported it to a Word doc, but both as a .pages and .doc file, the statement is two pages before upload.

Does anyone know how to deal with this?
PDF's

Re: LSAC Changes My Personal Statement Length

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:29 pm
by MsAvocadoPit
PDFs are not allowed anymore. I am sad about this!

My friend was having issues with formatting, and she fixed it by switching to Times New Roman font. So maybe if you're using a different font, try that?

Re: LSAC Changes My Personal Statement Length

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:43 pm
by kertz
Yeah I'm definitely using times new roman. Double spaced. Not sure what's going on here.

And I wish I could PDF! That is so much more professional and such a better format for transmitting docs. Unfortunately, LSAC does not allow you to upload PDFs.

Re: LSAC Changes My Personal Statement Length

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:45 pm
by LoveLife89
Switch to Garamond. It's smaller than Times and still pretty and professional.

Re: LSAC Changes My Personal Statement Length

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:11 pm
by foosbol21
LoveLife89 wrote:Switch to Garamond. It's smaller than Times and still pretty and professional.
+1 to Garamond. I'm using it for all of my app materials.

Re: LSAC Changes My Personal Statement Length

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:08 am
by SumStalwart
Garamond all of the way.