is it okay to write more than 150 words on my short answer??????

Dadx2
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:50:45 +0000

This from the Common App support site:

"We strongly advise all students to follow the short answer essay instructions by limiting the response to 150 words. Since the online system cannot enforce a word count for technological reasons, the Common App has imposed a 1000-character count maximum and a four-line limit, but that does not precisely correspond to 150 words, since words vary in length.

Please do not add any special formatting or unnecessary spaces since these will be counted in the character count."