<p>I definitely cut-and-pasted, so I dunno, I probably just need to try again.</p>
<p>well i never checked to see if the essay came up right, i just assumed it would. i uploaded the file and then did the rest of the application stuff.</p>
<p>use about 5 tabs (most browsers won't let you put a tab in a text area, so copy and paste). I found that 5 tabs looks like about one "normal" tab in the PDF preview. I also used a line to seperate them.</p>
<p>Also if your essay looks bad, they definatly won't hold it against you, its not that important really :-P</p>
<p>I solved the problem. The trick to putting a blank line in is to press return, space, and return again; the form will erase double line-breaks but not two line breaks with a space in between. Thanks, guys! :)</p>