Important PS paragraph question.

All spare lines and indentations disappear when your PS gets onto UCAS, and all new paragraphs get started by just a new line. I tried to change mine but it just changes it back, which looks really messy, but everyone's will be like it so it's nothing to worry about

I have another question - when I pasted my PS onto UCAS, and previewed it, the line spaces between paragraphs were intact. But when I previewed the whole thing at the end the line spaces were gone. What does this mean???

So if I want to paragraph it - which is important isnt it? - I'm going to have to use blank lines for paragraphs

Just start a paragraph on a new line (but don't miss one out, you need the space)

No you don't - or shouldn't. You need to make it legible - which it isn't if it is one amorphous mass of text.

You really should be able to write it sufficiently succinctly to allow yourself room for propoer paragraphs with blank lines. Treat it as a test. You pass the test if the admissions tutor thinks "what a well laid out PS".

No you don't - or shouldn't. You need to make it legible - which it isn't if it is one amorphous mass of text.

You really should be able to write it sufficiently succinctly to allow yourself room for propoer paragraphs with blank lines. Treat it as a test. You pass the test if the admissions tutor thinks "what a well laid out PS".

to be fair tho, sometimes everything is valuable. in the end i had to cut valuable information out of my ps so i could fit it all in and i understand that medicine is different in some regards but filling your space doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't concise or that any of your information is superfluous.

You basically have two choices.
You can either avoid spaces between lines for the sake of including all of the info in your PS, which you may deem vital to the success of your application.
Instead, you could have blanks in between paprgraphs, thus making your PS look neat and well organised, at the expense of 7-10 lines of what could be the info to give you enough marks for an interview.
I guess it's a matter of personal preferance as to which option you choose.

What you must try and remember is that the piece should be considered as a whole. Trying to squeeze in every last character's worth of detail, if it reduces the overall flow and legibility, is damaging to your message. You have to prioritise what you put in. Nearly everyone can write a 5,000 character piece effectively over 70 lines. Your challenge is to do it in 4,000 characters over 47 lines and this involves making some tough decisions.
It is your only opportunity to show directly to the admissions tutor how effective you are at communicating and how intelligently you can handle the applications process. If your message is diluted by bad spelling, grammar, punctuation, layout, irrelevant (or less relevant) detail, cliche or gratuitous bull**** you will be the loser and competitors will be handed an advantage over you.
And cliche (for the avoidance of doubt, and contrary to what a lot of teachers may tell you) in this context includes that old chestnut of saying, for instance, that you became determined on a career in engineering from the time you made a model of the Eiffel Tower in Meccano at the age of ten.
And just to illustrate the point, here is the same message all scrunched up to hit a line limit (and bear in mind that your PS would look much worse because the lines are shorter relative to your message:
What you must try and remember is that the piece should be considered as a whole. Trying to squeeze in every last character's worth of detail, if it reduces the overall flow and legibility, is damaging to your message. You have to prioritise what you put in. Nearly everyone can write a 5,000 character piece effectively over 70 lines. Your challenge is to do it in 4,000 characters over 47 lines and this involves making some tough decisions.
It is your only opportunity to show directly to the admissions tutor how effective you are at communicating and how intelligently you can handle the applications process. If your message is diluted by bad spelling, grammar, punctuation, layout, irrelevant (or less relevant) detail, cliche or gratuitous bull**** you will be the loser and competitors will be handed an advantage over you.
And cliche (for the avoidance of doubt, and contrary to what a lot of teachers may tell you) in this context includes that old chestnut of saying, for instance, that you became determined on a career in engineering from the time you made a model of the Eiffel Tower in Meccano at the age of ten.

Spaces between paragraphs is very important. I just edited his post and removed the spaces between paragraphs and doesn't it but you off reading it? But with spaces it makes it more manageable to read, and it looks better.

lol at the necroposting, but yea, what everyone else said!

Paragraphs are really important to make it light for the admissions people to read.