How important is the "With the resources provided by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, I will" sentence/paragraph? Mine is 5 lines long and right now I am 7 lines over the 3 page limit on my personal statement. Overall, I feel like it isn't very compelling and everyone says something along the same lines, so I could just completely remove it?
Anyone got tips on how to go from honorable mention to awardee? Only one of my reviewers really provided useful feedback. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about letter writers next year since I will be a first year grad student.
I can't decide if I should contact them or not. My top margin on the second page isn't one inch. If a reviewer looks at it I don't think I would be DQ because it is clear I wasn't trying to squeeze in extra text. I'm freaking out though.