How strict is the WORD LIMIT?

unefille
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:40:55 +0000

Princeton for instance, says to “write an essay of about 500 words”. Does this mean that they will NOT read a letter that is longer than 500 words? Mine is about 700 words long and I’m afraid that it’s way longer than what they are looking for. It’s still one page(when I uploaded the file) but that’s considering that it’s single spaced and in 10 size font.

Help!