barbiedoll
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Dear all
Wonder if anyone can help. I followed all the instructions about copying and pasting my personal statement i.e. txt file, word wrap etc, However, when I paste the PS into the box it looks fine, but once I hit 'save' and review/print it, there are new lines everywhere and the text has not wrapped. This makes it very difficult to read.
Please ADVISE.
thanks
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| PGI2alpha
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heyyy...how long is your SOP?I am freaking out coz i just read the charcter limit in eras~28,000 characters!!!!
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| barbiedoll
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one page. too long is not a good thing.
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| tolito
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i did mine straight from the txt format. when you copy and paste, you tend to get some funny things so you have to read it over and make corrections because certain characters are written like an upside down question mark.
in some programs, they specify not more than 500words while other say not longer than one page. short is best.
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| just do it
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Hi tolito
Hope all is well with you! GL , my dear stp2ck forum buddy
BTW, can we directly type it onto ERAS PS section?
or what is the correct method--plz explain a lil' more
Is the 500 word limit for PS strict ? and wht are those programs with such a word limit for PS? I am getting near to 600.--Is that ok?
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| robin082006
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My PS is 400 words.
I gave it to some American to read and some points are so noble and they advised me to erase.
I am reading it carefully before uploading.
Good luck to all.
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| sarika
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Although i finished my 4 PS 2 days ago, now when time came for uploading i am having doubts. Doubts abt technicalities of anecdotes. Remember how they asked you start ur PS withs oemthing catchy maybe an inspiring anecdote ...i did all that but now i am having doubts....The PD might start laughing..."WAS it even some sase to remember?"
Goodness the things we have to go thru to enter residency!
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| robin082006
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That's right sarika.
When I gave my 2 PSs to American, they read and laughed, asked me what I mean blalala althouth my PSs are perfectly grammar correct.
They said that I used very very noble language.
They recommend a little bit noble together with a little bit layman, avoid so noble sentences.
Good luck.
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| zianab
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robin ,how can it be 400 words??it would make 4 lines ???
are you counting from the word count on the eras website on personal statement and it checks for the word count and total allowed is 28000???
please explain???
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| robin082006
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4 paragraph, not 4 lines
not filled one page.
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| robin082006
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calculated by words, not byte
You can check your PS by clicking tool--->check word (do not remember exactly).
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| sarika
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oh i just realized i copy pasted from a word document to ERAS directly. I did not go thru the .txt format. When funny things appeared i just fixed everything, and left one blank lines between paragraph. Is everyone supposed to do it in TXT format?
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| sarika
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ok so i need to do this now....
When i select the text format from word document two options appear....rich txt and plain...which one do we have to use?
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| residency08
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Hi guys ,
I am having hard time pasting my PS in myras. Plz help me
1. The PS is not justified when I save it in myeras ... what to do about it?
2. What to do where we need to put things like inverted comas, apostrophe S ... how to go about that??
plz help
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| zianab
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Guys you have to be very careful in pasting the personal statement ,it has to be done by a specific method not just cut and paste from word as given in instructione,if you will not do it correctly ,there will be lines ,margins or the personal statement will be out of sequence.
So the program will see it like that which is not good on your part.please make sure that you do it right as you can loose points in interview selection process.
I have few suggestions foe everybody
I did not do my statement and resume myself,my husband did all the statement for me including prooof reading for errors many times,
making sure the format was correct
and making sure that all words have correct spaces ,
also he checked that you have to leave one space after the comma or a full stop,
please be careful about that so that statement looks good when seen by a program.
also he did spell check too by software ,which is very imp.
I know it is complicated and painful and there was no way ,I could do it myself .Thanks to him
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| azygous
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@zianab..can he have a look at my PS..just kidding..
you u gota be carefull about the format also in CAF..some wired things may happen there if u r copy pasting..
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| zianab
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sure azygous  you want to send it over to me
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| sarika
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ok this is what i did. I opened eras, copied my originally uploaded PS, pasted it in
MS word, changed the file type as plain text .txt. After which this ps file would open in note pad instead of ms word. I reviewed it over there and then copy pasted it again on eras. There you will see alot of line breaking, just fix that and you are DOne.........
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| robin082006
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sarika wrote:
ok this is what i did. I opened eras, copied my originally uploaded PS, pasted it in
MS word, changed the file type as plain text .txt. After which this ps file would open in note pad instead of ms word. I reviewed it over there and then copy pasted it again on eras. There you will see alot of line breaking, just fix that and you are DOne.........
Good job sarika,
I will do so.
Thanks
Good luck
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| johnraks
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I had a question about PS. Once you submit your CAF, Is it possible to change your PS or ad a new one for say a new speciality?
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| linaorvos
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could anyone help me with this Q.
in ERAS, does it line up perfectly on the right side margin?
I mean, in the word the 2 side margings are line up straight...but in ERAS, only the left side is a straight line, the right side is not....
do you guys understand what i m talking about....
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| silenced, M.D.
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linaorvos wrote:could anyone help me with this Q. in ERAS, does it line up perfectly on the right side margin? I mean, in the word the 2 side margings are line up straight...but in ERAS, only the left side is a straight line, the right side is not.... do you guys understand what i m talking about....
Yes, it is like that. Don't Worry.
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| sarika
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Mine is same, i tried to fix but couldnt so i left it like that. Doesnt look all that bad though!
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| linaorvos
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thanks sarika.
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