essays way too long??

EphemeralEternal
Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:47:27 +0000

Make the common app essay a sensible length. The Princeton supplement essay, should definitely be cut down as they specify an “essay of about 500 words”. To ignore their instruction merely invites their annoyance. 1000 words is WAY TOO long. Something around 600 will be all right.
If they are “good the way they are”, then the core of the essay will be strong. Just strip away anything superfluous, and with the 1000 word essay perhaps think about making brutal whole-paragraph cuts.