<p>@SkeezeyJ:</p>
<p>The application is pretty terrible, and I doubt you could finish it in a day or even two 
There are FIVE short essays, each about 400-ish words (2000 characters) and one long essay, which is about 2000 words (10,800 characters.) Also, the teacher recommendation part is like the mother of all recommendations. The teachers have to write even more than we do (!).</p>