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Status Replies posted by bugabooo
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OK, I admit it: I googled the names of some of the other applicants at the schools I'm interviewing at next week. Wow, talk about some stiff competition! :/
...I'm not the only one who does this, right?
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I've spent over an hour trying to shorten my SOP for my first choice school. Taken it from 4 pgs to 2...and three lines floating on a third page. Uni's site states "no more than two pages double spaced" and I have steam coming out my ears. UGH.
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Ha! I do wish it were more universal. I had one school ask for 500 words. How can you learn anything worth reading about someone in 500 words? 10 pages would be too much, I agree. I immediately thought of this image when I read your comment:
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I've spent over an hour trying to shorten my SOP for my first choice school. Taken it from 4 pgs to 2...and three lines floating on a third page. Uni's site states "no more than two pages double spaced" and I have steam coming out my ears. UGH.
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"no more than two pages double spaced, standard font."
I decreased the margin size a bit, made sure there's no extra spacing between paragraphs, chose 11pt times new roman over my default font (I hate times new roman, but it ate up less space), changed the size of all punctuation from 11pt to 9pt font, and decreased the indentation by just a little bit.
After a few awful hours, I finally was able to get it to two very full pages. I'm a little bummed about some of the things I had to scrap, as some of it really added to the voice and theme.
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I've spent over an hour trying to shorten my SOP for my first choice school. Taken it from 4 pgs to 2...and three lines floating on a third page. Uni's site states "no more than two pages double spaced" and I have steam coming out my ears. UGH.