<p>I answered this question in an earlier post. My D was just admitted ED and she realized this problem in early October – luckily around the time we attended a local NU information session. At that time, NU just became aware of the discrepancy between the instructions in the common app supplement and on NU’s own application. She was told she could disregard the 1000 character limit if she uploaded her essay – rather than paste an answer in the box – but was told to keep it to “about a page or a page and a half”. I THINK her essay was about 500 words or perhaps a bit more. Don’t quote me on the length but it was definitely more than 1000 characters.</p>