application question (urgent)

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>Does anyone know why my first essay is getting ~30 more words added onto it than it really is?</p>

<p>I copy/paste the entire thing into word, and it gives me a lower number (by about 30 words) everytime. Should I count the words by hand or something? This is really ****ing me off, as I'm crunched for space as it is.</p>

<p>Keep in mind it's only my long essay (prompt #1- ~745 words, but the app says it's 795). My short essay reads the same as it does on the app.</p>

<p>Any suggestions? Comments? Arggh.</p>

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<p>Did you save it as a text format before copying to the application?</p>

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<p>happened to me 2 years ago as well. it could be counting words like it's as 2 words while word counts it's as 1...
but it's a common problem, and has occurred before. if it doesn't push your total word count to too much over 1000, don't worry about it. otherwise, look for a few words to take out. frustrating but unavoidable.</p>

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<p>99, what exactly do you mean?</p>

<p>I simply copy/pasted the text from Word directly to the text box on the application.</p>

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<p>The instruction states to save the essay in txt format. What you should do is save as .txt, select ASCII, once you've done that, all format will be gone. You then copy and past from the .txt file to your application. See if that would help.</p>

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<p>As I'm pretty comp ignorant, I assume I would click save as on Word and change it from doc to txt? And when I do this where will I select the ASCII (I know what this is) option?</p>

<p>Thanks for your help 99, it's greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>You are right, click save as and change the format to .txt and it will pop up something Windows or ASCII, pick ASCII on the right hand side. That is all I did. Let me know if you have another question. I will pop up the word format and right down all the steps for you.</p>

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<p>You could copy and paste into Notepad, then copy that into the textarea. I think that's what I did.</p>

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<p>yes, it works the same. Notepad is text.</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot, guys. It ended up actually working.</p>

<p>Just think. These trivial electronic errors will be so obsolete in ten years :D.</p>

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<p>On the contrary, I think in ten years, electronic errors are only going to get more complex.</p>