Dashes in Personal Statement

I've just found out that dashes are classed as formatting by UCAS, and as such are removed from the personal statement, so that:

'reached a level in both - representing...'

becomes

'reached a level in both representing...'

Is there any way around this, or should I just replace '-' with ';' (dashes with semi-colons)?

Thanks

Reply 1

Talya

SaccerZD

'reached a level in both - representing...'

becomes

'reached a level in both representing...'

I don't see why you need that dash anyway. Find and English teacher and ask them, I'm sure they'll tell you it's unnecessary.

Reply 2

SaccerZD

It does work in the context... head of english said it was fine.

It could probably be substituted for a semi-colon though.

'...playing sport regularly, reaching a district representative level in both - competing for XXX @ XXX and XXX @ XXX'

Reply 3

SaccerZD

'...playing sport regularly, reaching a district representative level in both; competing for XXX @ XXX and XXX @ XXX'

would be fine, but i've already used a few semi-colons and wanted to use a couple of dashes to add a bit of variety to the sentence structure. Does anybody know a way around this - using two dashes, using a different symbol (~ or _, but obviously not them) for example?

Reply 4

Talya

SaccerZD

Admissions tutors don't care about the variety of your grammar. Honestly.

Reply 5

loftx

Dashes should work as long as they are 'normal' dashes rather than hyphens. Once the dash has dissapeared just reinsert it using the keybaord (as opposed to copy and pasting and it should work.