Personal Statement - How Many Characters?

Poll

How does you ps look like.

I am just curious as to how people's personal statements turned out.

Mine had three paragraphs each separated by a line, 665 words and about 3955 characters (although word claimed it to be 4025).

(NB in the poll 'not near to 4000' I mean anything less than 3900.)

Reply 1

ph9

word is such a liar. or i hope it is. because my ucas form tells me i'm ok, but word tells me i'm 37 over.

i hate how i've had to squeeze mine into three chunky paragraphs though.

Reply 2

_GUESS_

mine situation was actually the opposite....

word was telling me that i wasn't over the limit while ucas said i was, but now its the other way round!

Reply 3

K41

Mine was exactly up to the limit, on lines and characters. "0 lines and 0 characters remaining" I was pretty impressed with that! :rolleyes:

And I said everything I wanted to say.

Reply 4

smirf83

I don't have lines between the paragraphs, I put two spaces at the start of each paragraph to indent it slightly. Will these spaces be preserved so that when the med schools print out my PS it *will* look there are paragraphs, or will it just look like one massive block of text? On the UCAS site it just looks like 1 massive block... :frown:

Reply 5

cowsgomoo

yes ucas will get rid of the spaces - what you see on preview is exactly the outcome.

mine is 3750 characters, and has 4 blank lines separating 5 paragraphs. 618 words, 47 lines.
is that a good thing?
i hope so. it's quite short and snappy.
the english teacher i showed criticised me because i wrote like a typical scientist.... i took that criticism as a compliment, because I'm norty. i also didn't obide by my referee's suggestions. only because i didn't know how to incorporate them.