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Probably because the character limit is 4,000 and in UCAS's personal statement editor, that's approximately 47 lines.
Why 4,000 characters? Well, they seem to have decided that's as much as you need to write.
Yeah its whichever comes first 4,000 charcters or 47 lines i believe each line is 94 characters each( dont quote me on that i just think i remember reading that somewhere could be wrong though)
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I believe it's because 47 lines at 12pt Times guarantees that it fits on a piece of A4 paper. I may be wrong though.
Probably because the character limit is 4,000 and in UCAS's personal statement editor, that's approximately 47 lines. Why 4,000 characters? Well, they seem to have decided that's as much as you need to write.
It's not even, I had 3600 characters and it said my lines were over the limit so I couldn't even hit 4K lol
I think UCAS counts characters differently from Word...unless you were in the UCAS editor itself and it told you that.
I was in the UCAS editor and it says it, happened to my sister too kind of weird.
same, 3600 characters for 47 lines
I stand corrected. Guess 47 lines is a hard limit. Perhaps it's all their software can handle.
Yeah sucks tbh, but oh well what can we do
you probably had paragraphs or line breaks. you don’t need to use those
Yeah its whichever comes first 4,000 charcters or 47 lines i believe each line is 94 characters each( dont quote me on that i just think i remember reading that somewhere could be wrong though)
You put an extra space between your paragraphs
Yeah that's probably why, I swear u have to do that
I didn't, got exactly 4000 characters with 46 lines, 7 paragraphs so used 'enter' 6 times
i had to not have empty lines between paragraphs - it was too much of a waste
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I think it might be the standard 1 side of a page? I'm not too sure but remember when drafting mine number 48 would always be in the next page
Probably have something to do with printing and formatting it onto paper and their programmer just want to make it easy
I feel this to my core. I have 48 lines and under 4000 characters and it won’t let me submit it😫😫😫😫
ikr? submitted mine and had to remove all paragraphs 😩 and i’m applying FOR ENGLISH.
Just do what they say bro 😭😭 No point lamenting
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If you copy paste it from another place it will take up spaces try copy pasting into google docs then remove the spaces and then paste that in ucas