I’ve already submitted my common app for my early school. The thing is, it’s in bold because the common app text box starts you off in bold by default. My thought process was that if you start off with bold by default, then they wouldn’t particularly mind which way you wrote your essay. However, I’m starting to have second thoughts now because most people I know submitted it in plain text.
Because the entire thing is bold, it looks fairly normal and is still easy to read. Will it still count against me?
@Amduseus I don’t think it would count against you. I would hope an admissions department would be professional in their review of your entire application. Most students I know write their essays in other software such as word and then copy and paste it into the common app. I would relax.
Omg I searched everywhere and finally found someone with the same issue I have. I copied my supplementals from a google doc into the text boxes on the common app and it bolded all of them. Unfortunately I only noticed after I submitted them.
After pestering my college counselor and my teachers, they all said that it was such a minor mistake and that there is nothing I should worry about so I’d like to pass that on to you. I can’t imagine that an admissions officer would be petty enough to let a formatting error factor into our admissions decisions.