<p>I’ve been working on my optional essay for my University of Pittsburgh application. However, it turned out to be about 3 pages double spaced. Is this too long? Should I try to cut it to 500 words, although they don’t really outline a maximum essay length?</p>
<p>Any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Yikes that seems really long to me. I can’t recall seeing any college essay asking for more than 500 words. What I’d worry about is that your essay won’t be read entirely through.</p>
<p>yes I was thinking that, as well. I’m gonna try to cut it to one page.</p>
<p>ziggy:
This is a very good summary of some critical points about college essay writing and they helped my son a lot. This is from a blog of a woman who is on CC a lot and has her own college forum too:</p>
<p><a href=“http://collegehunt.blogspot.com/2005/06/telling-your-story-admissions-essays.html[/url]”>http://collegehunt.blogspot.com/2005/06/telling-your-story-admissions-essays.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://collegehunt.blogspot.com/2005/06/telling-your-story-admissions-essays_13.html[/url]”>http://collegehunt.blogspot.com/2005/06/telling-your-story-admissions-essays_13.html</a></p>
<p>ziggy, anything you write needs to be shortened. you wrote 4 pages of nothing in a half hour…jerk</p>