<p>Ok, gang, a question that has come up with my daughter's English teacher, who has the kids filling out the Common App:</p>
<p>Is it necessary for essays for the Common App (or, for that matter, any college essays) to be double spaced? </p>
<p>This teacher (AP English Literature 12) insists that the essays be double spaced. I don't remember my older daughter (who graduated college in May and was quite fortunate in her admissions decisions) double spacing hers. </p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Double spaced.
My kids were taught to write in MLA format. So every essay and paper that they write is always double spaced in HS (and I assume in college since I haven’t seen any of Ds work). Ds common app essay and all supplementals were double spaced</p>
<p>[MLA</a> Format](<a href=“http://www.hw.com/academics/usenglish/Web%20Texts/MLA%20Format.htm]MLA”>http://www.hw.com/academics/usenglish/Web%20Texts/MLA%20Format.htm)</p>
<p>Ask ur D how she did hers</p>
<p>It might just be so that the teacher can read it more easily?</p>
<p>In the Texas Common Application, the formatting gets very “lost” when you cut and paste. Is it not the same with the regular common app?</p>
<p>YoHo YoHo, yes, that must be it. Thank you. I am a former newspaper writer, so I always think in terms of taking up the least space possible. But I am sure the teacher is insisting on MLA format.</p>
<p>My son’s last year was single spaced with double spacing between paragraphs and it fit on one page for the common ap. </p>
<p>I do not believe it has to be double spaced which mean 2 pages of an essay to read. </p>
<p>Both are acceptable, but personally, I would prefer to read a one page essay instead of two.</p>
<p>In HS, all his essays were double spaced though.</p>
<p>My D’s common ap main essay was double spaced. Her short one on the EC was not.</p>
<p>cromette, she did not copy and paste her main essay, the file was uploaded from Word.</p>
<p>Because of the word count limits, a double spaced essay only takes up one page. Actually, maybe it is only 1.5 spaced?</p>
<p>Anything that can be uploaded, I double spaced :). The copy & paste essays and short answers were single spaced.</p>
<p>Everything my D submitted was single spaced. No double spacing even between paragraphs. Worked for her.</p>