Question about UC essay prompts.

powerabe13
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:53:52 +0000

At my school for AP English Literature, one of many summer assignments is to respond to the three personal statement prompts from UC’s 2004-2005 application. The instructions said that the three responses will amount to about 1000 words, with at least 600 words for one of the three prompts, and two prompt responses with approximately 200 words in length each. My question is, “For the 200 word length prompt responses, does it have to be very close to 200, or could it be a little bit more?” For one of the prompt responses, I have 260 words. I’m not talking about qualifications of the teacher grading this summer assignment, but I’m talking about if I were to submit to UCs as part of the application. Thank you in advance.