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I am on my 4th attempt in getting into SS and have been advised to downsize the images I submit. Should I do this ?

Yes: downsizing reduces artefacts, mainly noise.

Remember to do all other edits before downsizing.
Except perhaps applying a little sharpening after downsizing in case of (very limited) soft focus issues.

Of course, downsizing can't do anything on lighting, white balance, low commercial value issues.

Actually It depends on the reason your downsizing. If someone just said do it That Isin't a reason. Are they soft,Noise,Etc? OOF is OOF All you wind up with is a smaller OOF Image, If ya wanna hide noise? Thats a different Issue I would suggest learning Exposure as Noise is based on Exposure or a crappy camera or sensor. If a buyer DL's your Image in a Xlarge version there gonna want there money back. I personally think 3400/3600 longest side is as far down as you should go. Thats about 10 MP's. Getting your work accepted is relatively easy as compared to having work that sells. I also think sites like SS should raise the Minimum MP's to at least 8 now. Most consumer cameras now are in the 16/18 MP range. It's not 2005 anymore.

No, there is nothing wrong with the quality of the images I am going to submit (some of them were ok in the last submission, I got 6 out of 10 and one was rejected on the basis of captioning which was a bit mean) It's just some advise I have been given in general.