Does anyone else have problems with paragraph breaks in the Common App?

My essays look like one giant paragraph in the pdf preview and I don’t know how to fix it. I’ve tried putting extra returns and pasting from textedit but I can’t get it seem to work. Can anyone please help? Any tips would be hugely appreciated and urgently needed

Have you tried holding down the shift key when you press the return key (shift-return)?

Tried it but did not work for me

I read somewhere that someone emailed common app and they said that even if the pdf doesn’t show paragraphs, as long as your text box has them that’s what the colleges will see

Hi where did you see that?

@theboywhodied

Also curious about the source!