<p>Yesterday I finished my two essays for the UC application and copied them from word into the application website. Luckily today i reread my essays just before i submitted my app only to notice that the web browser changed all my apostrophes to &&&& symbols. Just be careful and reread your essays after you copy them into the app so you don't sound foolish using 'AND' symbols</p>
<p>Woah thank you so how do you fix them?</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard in the Personal Statement workshops at my school, they prefer that students not use apostrophes. this is probably why, write out all the words, sounds better</p>
<p>What if you’re using words like “my dog’s eyes” or something like that? I know you’re can be fixed to you are but what about those words?</p>
<p>Babyblo, try fixing them by hand. If I had to guess, I’d say errors like this are probably caused by pasting from Microsoft Word or something. Some editors change characters (like quotes and apostrophes) to make them look prettier… but that formatting breaks when you try to paste it somewhere else. So, if this is the case, try fixing it on the app itself.</p>
<p>Disclaimer: I’m not applying right now and don’t know if this is actually the issue or not, so if it doesn’t work ignore me.</p>
<p>Failure622 oh ok thank you im still adding my course works so i dont know if we could actually edit ourselves.</p>