<p>The essay for cornell asks for a 500 word limit but I cannot seem to keep it under 600. What should I do? Are they really going to sit there and count?</p>
<p>No, they’re not. They won’t insta-reject you just because your essay is long. If shortening your essay would hinder the overall message you’re trying to convey, leave it. If it can be shortened whilst maintaining the same effect, try to get it down a bit.</p>
<p>^ but too many words over, shows you cannot follow directions when so many students wrote exceptional essays under regulation. It’s 12:00, so I doubt my advice helps. But for future reference you shouldn’t worry if its in the ± 100 word range…</p>
<p>Actually I was wondering how the time diffference affects me. I live on the west coast and on the common app it shows that I turned stuff in a day late. Will the school notice the time difference?</p>
<p>I think it’s according to the standard time on your computer. thats how most sites equate the for the time difference. otherwise they should compensate it by where you live or some other information given on your app.</p>
<p>K, my friend was freaking out over this too</p>
<p>No, it said mine was late too even though I was applying to a west coast school and I live on the west coast.</p>
<p>But I don’t care because there’s no way I’d be penalized for that :P</p>
<p>From the common app site:</p>
<p>“All application deadlines are as of 11:59pm ET on the stated deadline day. The Common Application records all dates (deadlines, form submission dates, payment dates) in Eastern Time. Schools not located in the eastern time zone may choose to extend their application deadlines to the end of a deadline day in their local time zone, or may accept your documents up until the posted deadline in their local time zone (even though your submission time stamp will be recorded in Eastern Time.) For example, a school located in California may accept your application until 2:59am Eastern Time, which is equivalent to 11:59pm Pacific Time. Since this is on a school-by-school basis and this is not information that may not be available to you, we recommend you submit based on the Eastern Time deadline. Most colleges will accept the submission if it is within a reasonable time period around their deadline.”</p>
<p>sooo…technically it IS late. But most schools do have leniancy as stated in a prior thread, especially in the 7-8 hrs before the schools download the applications the following morning. and note the last sentence from the application site themselves.</p>