4000 word limit on personal statement

Hi, I was just writing my personal statement (soo should have done that earlier, but oh well) and I've written it in word and done a character with spaces count and it says it is 253 characters over but then i pasted it into the UCAS application box and that says i need to cut over 1000 characters.

Did anyone else have this problem cos I'm finding it really difficult to know what to cut! Why the massive difference too?

Hayley xxx :cool:

Reply 1

Reading Room

Erm, you've got it slightly wrong: there is a limit of 4000 characters for a UCAS PS, not 4000 words. :wink:

Keep an eye on the 47 max line limit, too.

Reply 2

hp_348

aah yes, thats what i meant.
didnt know about the 47 line limit tho, i guess this is what my problem is at the mo

:frown:

must keep cutting....

Reply 3

HearTheThunder

That's why I wrote mine directly in the UCAS box :p:

Reply 4

Reading Room

HearTheThunder

That's why I wrote mine directly in the UCAS box :p:

But no spell checker...?! :eek:

Reply 5

IAmFaye

Easy as ABC

But no spell checker...?! :eek:

There is if you have Firefox 2!

But yeah, I did it on Word, had 47 lines, and then pasted it in UCAS, and it was a good number of characters over the limit. Ugh!

Reply 6

forpolarbears

yeah, I have my computer set so it spell checks everything I type because I can't spell.

UCAS doesn't count the same as word, but I found it that the difference was fairly consistent, so I could figure out how to cut it quickly.

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