Anonymous wrote:These admissions officers clearly all have god complexes. Glad they make so little money. Hope Trump sends them to jail.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typing (on a typewriter) represents a (many-decades long) regression in the field of setting type. The convention of two spaces emerged because the first typewriters had only monospace fonts (and therefore no variable-width spacing). Once word processing on computers with variable-width fonts (and variable-width spaces) emerged, there was no longer a need for double spaces. In fact, double spaces can interfere with layout algorithms working as designed.

What lawyers do should hardly be a standard. (Same goes for screenplay writers.)

Who cares where it came from. The bottom line is, plenty of us find two spaces after periods easier to read because they create a more distinct break between sentences, making the text sound more "natural" as we read it and easier to understand. That is one reason why it persists in legal writing, and why many of us were taught it long after typewriters became obsolete.

The point is, it is appalling that an AO would assume that an essay with two spaces after periods had undue adult involvement in writing the essay. It is far more likely that an adult proofreader saw it and, coming from a workplace or background where two spaces are normal (or required), advised the kid to do a universal find-and-replace to change one space after periods to two. The AO in the article said they consider a section with two spaces after periods to be "blatantly faked." That is an outrageous assumption.

Anonymous wrote:These lies are really stupid.

I think the biggest lie is schools inflate GPA, telling colleges that they are straight A students. It has been going on for several years now.

Anonymous wrote:I am an older millennial lawyer and we all use one space now - even in law school (2007 grad) we were instructed to use one space.

Anonymous wrote:I am an older millennial lawyer and we all use one space now - even in law school (2007 grad) we were instructed to use one space.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t that how lawyers type? Two spaces.

Yes, it is, speaking from experience

Anonymous wrote:Interesting article from AOs. Probably half of the lies are from DCUMers. 🙂

Your favorite?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferadams2/college-admissions-officers-are-sharing-the-worst-example

Anonymous wrote:My mother taught at one of the count's rich schools. One of the last things she did before retiring is curse out a parent that tried to bribe her.

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t that how lawyers type? Two spaces.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typing (on a typewriter) represents a (many-decades long) regression in the field of setting type. The convention of two spaces emerged because the first typewriters had only monospace fonts (and therefore no variable-width spacing). Once word processing on computers with variable-width fonts (and variable-width spaces) emerged, there was no longer a need for double spaces. In fact, double spaces can interfere with layout algorithms working as designed.

What lawyers do should hardly be a standard. (Same goes for screenplay writers.)

Who cares where it came from. The bottom line is, plenty of us find two spaces after periods easier to read because they create a more distinct break between sentences, making the text sound more "natural" as we read it and easier to understand. That is one reason why it persists in legal writing, and why many of us were taught it long after typewriters became obsolete.

The point is, it is appalling that an AO would assume that an essay with two spaces after periods had undue adult involvement in writing the essay. It is far more likely that an adult proofreader saw it and, coming from a workplace or background where two spaces are normal (or required), advised the kid to do a universal find-and-replace to change one space after periods to two. The AO in the article said they consider a section with two spaces after periods to be "blatantly faked." That is an outrageous assumption.

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t that how lawyers type? Two spaces.

Anonymous wrote:This one is weird. They thought the parents wrote it because of two spaces between sentences. Don’t you have to tap the space bar twice to get a period? Or do younger people manually put the period in?


“I’ve seen is an essay draft where every period in the sentence was followed by two spaces... that's what the older generation (i.e. parents) was taught with typing."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Typing (on a typewriter) represents a (many-decades long) regression in the field of setting type. The convention of two spaces emerged because the first typewriters had only monospace fonts (and therefore no variable-width spacing). Once word processing on computers with variable-width fonts (and variable-width spaces) emerged, there was no longer a need for double spaces. In fact, double spaces can interfere with layout algorithms working as designed.

What lawyers do should hardly be a standard. (Same goes for screenplay writers.)

Who cares where it came from. The bottom line is, plenty of us find two spaces after periods easier to read because they create a more distinct break between sentences, making the text sound more "natural" as we read it and easier to understand. That is one reason why it persists in legal writing, and why many of us were taught it long after typewriters became obsolete.

The point is, it is appalling that an AO would assume that an essay with two spaces after periods had undue adult involvement in writing the essay. It is far more likely that an adult proofreader saw it and, coming from a workplace or background where two spaces are normal (or required), advised the kid to do a universal find-and-replace to change one space after periods to two. The AO in the article said they consider a section with two spaces after periods to be "blatantly faked." That is an outrageous assumption.