Are personal statements for Grad School often double-spaced?

In my experience, the majority of written documents (essays, statements, homework) that I submit to my department are double-spaced. I only turn something in single-spaced if that format is mentioned in the instructions.

Yes.

Thanks!

Yes, mine was.

I can’t imagine why. It’s not going to be graded or edited, is it? Double-spacing makes perfect sense for rough drafts, manuscripts, stage directions and anything else that’s likely to be annotated, corrected and edited.