Scholarship Essays Word Limit?

jenny1penny
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:57:43 +0000

How much more words is it acceptable to go over? (paper application)
Are the use of contractions in order to reduce the number of words ok?

This is a pretty prestigeous scholarship for the university that i am going to go to (Chancelor’s scholarship). The essay is very strong as well as the rest of my application, the only thing is that it is too long (essay). I feel that I have a very strong chance of winning but am worried about the essay portion.

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