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A small formatting detail that made my personal statement easier to read

Nothing dramatic, but a friend who reviews a lot of legal documents professionally suggested a formatting change to my personal statement that I think genuinely improved how it read, and want to pass it along. My original draft was long, dense paragraphs — accurate content, but visually exhausting to read straight through. Breaking it into clearly headed sections (roughly aligned with which criterion or theme each section addressed), with somewhat shorter paragraphs within each section, made the same content noticeably easier to follow without cutting any substance. Small thing, but worth considering if your draft currently reads as one long undifferentiated block of text — a reviewer working through many petitions likely appreciates a document that's easy to navigate and find specific claims within, just as much as one that's substantively strong.

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