Personal Statement - Need to Upload it

College Essays
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<p>The common app requires me to upload my personal statement. So they want it out of word. How should I write the content of my personal statement?</p>

<p>Any examples?</p>

<p>Curvy letters?</p>

<p>Help :-(</p>

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<p>Also I need to write about why I got suspended. Any offerings?</p>

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<p>The Common Application also contains a box where you can type your essay instead of uploading it. If you have already written your essay, copying and pasting your Microsoft Word essay into that space should work.</p>

<p>A suspension does not look good; there is nothing you can do about. All you can do is talk about the circumstance. Perhaps you should ask your guidance counselor, principal, or whoever was involved in the disciplinary action to write a letter that explains the suspension.</p>

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It doesn’t actually have a form in which you can type your essay into the site - the personal essay forces an upload. But I don’t really see what the problem is - just pick a fairly standard font of your liking and a reasonable size. If for some reason you don’t want to decide on the formatting of your essay, you can just upload it in a .txt file and the default font settings.</p>

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<p>either TNR 10 or 12, or Arial 10, or whatever that new Word 07 Standard font is.</p>

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<p>Ahh, my bad. I was looking at the “Short Answer” above it. Disregard my comments on that in my first post.</p>

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<p>uggh i hate the new word 07 standard font, haha.
I have a question… if you upload the document, will italics show up? if not, how do you type in italics on the common app? italics are an important part of my essay.</p>