Personal statement, character count and such..

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Well I finally finished my personal statement and I am very happy with it. I let a few others read over it who gave me some pointers on how to improve it which I took and made it better. My question is about its length. It is a total of 858 words. I don’t know how the character count fits in with the limit of 5000 or so for the TMDSAS application. The statement is made up of 8 paragraphs. I am planning to seperate each by one space. Do you think that it will all fit and I will come in under the character limit?

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On the Amcas, it automatically deleted the spacing i used to for seperation of the paragraphs. My word count was 649 which equated to 3671 characters out of 5300 usable characters


Hope that helps

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Yeah that helps. Looks like 5.7 characters per word more or less making it roughly 4890 characters for me. Sounds good!!

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In my version of word (the latest I think), if I go to the review tab and select word count it also provides me with character counts, both with and without spaces.


Lynda

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I am guessing spaces counth then?

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  • en0920 Said:
I am guessing spaces counth then?



Yes
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Darn all I get is word count; I don’t see where I can find out the character count…I have Microsoft Word-don’t know the version.

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I have Microsoft Office Word 2007

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I had an older version of Word and couldn’t get a character count either. So I copied and pasted into the application as a trial (didn’t save it), it told me how many characters I had…then I deleted it, cut it down, tried again. 4 revisions and it was short enough. Looked it over, rewrote it somemore, came up with a version that was tight and to the point and fit in. Maybe that was using a hammer on a non-nail problem, but it got my essay to fit in the “hole”


Kate

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  • Kate429 Said:
I had an older version of Word and couldn't get a character count either. So I copied and pasted into the application as a trial (didn't save it), it told me how many characters I had...then I deleted it, cut it down, tried again. 4 revisions and it was short enough. Looked it over, rewrote it somemore, came up with a version that was tight and to the point and fit in. Maybe that was using a hammer on a non-nail problem, but it got my essay to fit in the "hole"

Kate



Heyyyyyyyy I just might try that!! Thanks...