TheSaint

So the Yale short answer questions say please answer in 25 words or fewer - but also give a character limit. Do you think being over 25 words, but still within the character limit of 175 is alright? How are other applicants doing this?

gibby

Yes, that's fine.

The 25-word limit uses 6 characters as the average length of a word, with each space between a word also counting as an additional character. (Punctuation counts as a character too.) If your sentence(s) contain words of shorter length, you might be able to squeeze 29 to 30 words in the space -- and that's okay. However, the program will not allow you to enter more than 175 characters.

TheSaint

Thank you very much! I was hoping I wouldn't have to cut even more words from the tightly constructed answers.

MonsieurHorloger

Dang, that is a REALLY short short answer.