<p>same here, the one i sent essays i sent out to UCSD came out to be 1080 words.IMO as long as you can hold onto the interest of the AOs for that extra 80 words, you should be fine.
im pretty sure they actually cap the essays like this: 250 250 and 680
so they actually give you room for 1180 words even though they recommend its 1000 or less.</p>