<p>can someone please help with the formatting??? If I upload a word document all of the apostrophes disappear, and if I paste in to the textbox, my whole essay gets lumped together so you can't tell the paragraphs apart...</p>
<p>Either change your Word settings from smart quotes, or paste the whole thing into a plaintext editor and fix the apostrophes and spacing errors.</p>
<p>If you paste into the textbox, you can use spaces instead of tabs for paragraph breaks. That's what I did; worked great. But they don't care about apostrophes and formatting anyway; they make that really clear on blogs or something I think I remember, because they know their converter is not perfect.</p>
<p>Also my essay took more than 1 page; if it CAN'T be cut anymore, don't worry about it...</p>
<p>I am applying to MIT as a transfer student. I have to send my application by mail. I have 3 major essays: 2 -250 words and 1- 500 word essay. I have Latex’d the essays and although all 3 exceed the word limit(by around 15-20%), they fit in 2 pages. Is that fine?
Further I felt that I hadn’t given a complete image of me, so I have attached a 1 page additional information sheet. Is that fine?
Cheers
CS</p>