<p>I feel that ^ is completely wrong.</p>
<p>Well, my seniors asked me to limit my essay within 500-800 words. I seriously couldn’t.
It was a decription of an event and the lesson I learnt out of it. I felt that every sentence added up to the meaning of the entire picture. I have manged to trim it down from 1400 to 1100. If anyone is willing to help me with this, please let me know.</p>
<p>The titular statement is not necessarily correct. However, I think a short and sweet essay that conveys the same thing as a long essay will most likely be better (moreso for college apps, when it is essential to consider your reader). </p>
<p>And even if every sentence is important, every word within each sentence should be important as well. Even if you only remove 20 words, that will increase the readability moreso than subtracting 20 words may indicate.</p>
<p>I read an essay that was 78 words long, honestly quite good, and got accepted into Yale. (Though you must remember, he probably had a lot, LOT of other things going for him simultaneously).</p>
<p>Trim down “to be” and cut down on adjectives and especially adverbs. Make sure your verbs are specific enough to add flavor to your writing without extraneous descriptives.</p>
<p>If your essay is twice as long as you’d like it to be, you might need to limit the scope more. Why are you writing the essay and who are your seniors?</p>