One of the schools I'm applying to only allows a Personal Statement of 300 words or less. This is very short considering the lengths required by most schools. According to their website, they do this for two reasons:They take pride in the fact that they read every single word of every single application. (They don't dismiss students outright because of a single score.) Doing this takes up
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