Blog post by Koko Lotharukpong | October 2020

We’ve all been there.

You’ve written a masterpiece, and you’re perfectly happy with it.

Your look at the bottom left-hand corner of your Word program - and you realize you’re over the character count.

Now, you have to figure out a way to cut down and remove characters from your Personal Statement!

Here’s our four quick tricks on how to do so.

• 1. Print out your Personal Statement
• 2. Read your Personal Statement out loud
• 3. Rethink your sentence structure
• 4. Replace long words with shorter ones

Every little bit counts! Good luck!