<p>A Penn education provides a liberal arts and sciences foundation across multiple disciplines with a practical emphasis in one of four undergraduate schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Nursing, or the Wharton School. given the undergraduate school to which you are applying, please discuss how you will engage academically at Penn.<br>
(Please answer in 300 words or less.)</p>
<p>I’ve read elsewhere that for the Common App essay, adcoms will keep reading past the 500 word limit, but for the supplement essays, they just cut your essay off, in this case at the 300th word. Is this true?</p>
<p>Here’s my theory. There is no way they’re going to know where the 300th word is. They could get software to do it, but that would take more time than it would to just read your essay. So they’re going to have a rough idea of what the essay should look like, but not exactly to the 300th word. You’ll be alright give or take 20-30 words. Your only problem would be if the online application cuts it off at 300 words. I remember last year I had several problems with this when I typed the essay in Word and tried to paste it onto the app, only to find it was cut off.</p>
<p>no, it doesn’t cut off. anything that requires you to upload a document does not have a true word limit. One of my friend submitted an almost 1000 word essay for the general writing essay.</p>
<p>do check the pdf though, because it might be cut off in there</p>