University of Washington essay formatting

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Hey all, I was looking for through my application on the coalition app and I realized that the formatting for my essays is gone. There aren’t any indents to indicate paragraphs. Is it like this for anyone else? Should I be worried? should i contact the admissions office?

Secondly, I remember that one of the prompt choices for the essays was “topic of your choice”. In the additional information section I said I chose topic of my choice and copy and pasted a commonapp prompt because I recycled my commonapp essay. Is this ok? Someone at my school said that she put the prompt on the top of her response. Were we supposed to do this?

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Yes, coalition app stripes out all formatting and present your essay as a lump of text. We listened to one of the UW webinars, and the AO said that they are used to reading the blob of text without formatting.

If you choose “topic of your choice”, you don’t need to copy the prompt. There’s no restriction on topic, so just present your essay and let the AO figure out what it means.

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Thank you! That was very helpful @bogeyorpar