Amusing! In another OP, you told applicants not to answer the question asked in the prompt to demonstrate individualism (which I strenuously disagree with). Now, you’re suggesting that they must be constrained in their essays; otherwise, they will tick off the admissions officer “with too many words.” Again, which is it?
According to Google, it takes around 2.2 minutes to read 650 words. How much resentment exactly will build up with the AO for 2.2 minutes additional time?
For me, that’s more info for me to make a good decision (I review lots of lawyer resumes; while I am not an AO, I want MORE rather than less relevant info. And as humans, every one of us has something or many things unique about us. I’d love to know that.
It’s not so much your ideas that are controversial, but it’s that your advice and OP titles contradict each other, that your “advice” comes across as an unbreakable rule when there are plenty of folks that have shown otherwise despite your causation v. correlation aphorism, and that you say that the mods and “regular posters” have a pre-conceived dislike of your thoughts. For sure, in my case, that doesn’t apply. As a parent, I am looking for all the great advice that folks at CC give which is manifold.
Guidance to students that “you may want to think carefully before filling out the Additional Information Section and make sure you have something to say” is far more meaningful and realistic than “don’t fill out the Additional Information Section” and, when challenged, your response that this applies in 99% of the cases.