"Grace period" for word limits?

fuzzyfirebunny
Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:55:59 +0000

personally I wouldn’t take the risk of going over at all. adcoms read so many <500 word essays that by the time they get to yours, it’ll be glaringly obvious that you were over the word count.
that said though, i don’t think it’ll necessarily count against you…just a risk I wouldn’t take :/