<p>I dont understand this thinking by the CA.</p>
<p>If all else fails remember the colleges know you are having this problem. I don’t think they will hold a missing paragraph break against you.</p>
<p>I’m having the same issue with my essay. I just found this advice on a college blog:</p>
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<li> Format the essay in Word with no indents, single spaced, and two hard returns between paragraphs.</li>
<li> Copy and paste the essay into a brand new Word document.</li>
<li> Copy and paste that into the essay box in the CA.</li>
<li> Do not touch it do not make any corrections where a sentence ends with one word on a new line and then the new sentence continued on the next line. Leave it just as it is.</li>
<li> Then print preview and the essay should look perfect.
<a href=“https://www.collegemapper.com/blog/2013/10/what-to-do-if-youre-having-trouble-with-the-common-app/[/url]”>https://www.collegemapper.com/blog/2013/10/what-to-do-if-youre-having-trouble-with-the-common-app/</a></li>
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<p>I have Pages on my computer instead of Word, so I’ll have to wait until I can get to a PC. Hopefully this method works!</p>
<p>I am trying this bookworm. Fingers crossed. Lots of stress and tears last night when we couldn’t get this to work. For a writer, paragraph breaks are an important part of the rhythm of a piece!</p>
<p>They fixed it!</p>
<p>Yeah it’s fixed. I was able to get paragraph breaks from just copy and pasting from Microsoft word. Had to fix a little formatting in the CA, but I got the breaks.</p>