Essay Length Paranoia

<p>Basically, both of my short answer essays for the tufts supplement are over 200 words, one is 213, and the other is 260, is this going to be a problem? (im having a really hard time cutting it down) Secondly, I still do not see the optional essay for the Tufts Supplement Application on this website : <a href=“http://apply.tufts.edu/supplement/[/url]”>http://apply.tufts.edu/supplement/&lt;/a&gt;, am I missing something?</p>

<p>i had mine at 213 and 217
im not sure if mine are ok, but i submitted it thinking it was fine</p>

<p>no that’s totally fine. the link for the optional essay is somewhere on the top right of the supplement…it’s like a button that says “optional essay info”</p>

<p>Oh don’t worry about that at all! I think mine were 250 and 300 and I got in!</p>

<p>other opinions here…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=131078[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=131078&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>some people think so, some don’t</p>

<p>oh man, thanks a lot guys, I actually was able to cut both down to about 220 now, so I think I’m alright.</p>

<p>The essay length isn’t a huge deal - you want to keep it close, but they’re pretty realistic about it. I saw someone post on here who said they’d done an 800+ word optional essay and got in, so…I don’t think a little over 200 will kill you.</p>