Ahh long essay too short?

Sx91
Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:09:05 +0000

I dont think they expect you to use all 4900 characters (over 900 words!).



Where did you get that figure from? From three previous college essays, I have the following statistics (words/characters with spaces [as on the Stanford online app]):
512 / 3238 (6.32 char/word)
295 / 1950 (6.61 char/word)
285 / 1806 (6.34 char/word)

Totaling them up, we have:
1092 / 6994 (6.40 char/word)

I calculate approximately 6.4 characters/word, so in a 4900 character essay, it’d be about 765 words MAX. I do agree, though, that 500 words is a better figure to go by, all around.