<p>I submitted my UNC Chapel Hill application a few days ago. When I submitted it, I didn't have any spaces between paragraphs, it was just one big blob of words. The Common App would not let me insert spaces no matter what I tried, and on top of that it took hours to generate a pdf. I finally had to accept the error and submit it partially flawed. </p>
<p>Do you think that UNC will understand or will they be unsatisfied by how my paper is formatted?</p>
<p>This is a known issue with the new Common App and is one of many problems that applicants are facing. I’m sure that UNC Chapel Hill is aware of the problem.</p>
<p>On the same note, I have heard rumors that there is some kind of workaround that will allow spaces to be inserted between essay paragraphs. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, the work around only works through Mac/Safari.</p>
<p>Yes I want to know this too! Any workaround available??</p>
<p>What we’ve noticed:</p>
<p>-- upload responses at the time when you are ready to submit them, otherwise any reformatting you do is lost.</p>
<p>-- on a PC, for us, there has been no really predictable pattern, i.e. sometimes the formatting is decent, other times we have to insert multiple hard returns and try 5-6 times to get the formatting right.</p>
<p>My son’s essay had multiple paragraph spacings, and we don’t have any Apple products in our house. It can be done on a Windows PC. As far as I recall, he did the essays in Word, and copy pasted–that’s it.</p>