Common App essay legnth???

ritzbitz133
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:48:14 +0000

If it said limit than you’d be right… but it says approximately. I agree that if you can cut it down do so, but if you cant, dont! All the admissions officers I have heard say “Are we going to count every word? No. But if it is over 1000 words we’ll notice” I think anything around 700 is fine. THere are even people on these boards that got into their first choice college with a an essay of 750 words. You can do what you want- but don;t say that other people are wrong for having more