<p>How many characters can I have for the main essay?</p>
<p>The personal statement? 3500 (spaces count) I believe.</p>
<p>ok and there aren’t any supplements right?</p>
<p>By “supplements,” are you asking if supplemental information can be sent in? We certainly did last year (dd is a freshman). But she homeschooled, so they may have been more willing to accept supplementation, or even welcomed it.</p>
<p>Then again, they might have thrown it all away – hard to tell!</p>
<p>I don’t recall any prohibition of supplementation last year. But the admissions web site is now different so I don’t know for sure the official policy now. I can understand why they wouldn’t want to broadcast their willingness to look at more paper. </p>
<p>My personal speculation would be that they would look at anything that tells them more about an applicant, something that could not come across in the regular application for whatever reason. But then I’m often willing to offer my opinion on things when I don’t really know :)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>