Word/paragraph limit for supplemental essay?

NerdyAsianKid
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:34:09 +0000

Thanks for all the replies everyone. I looked this up, and I saw several people say that the 1-2 paragraph “limit” is just a rough guideline to make sure that people don’t write a novel-sized essay, and that anything under a page should be fine. My essay is currently 460 words, 5 paragraphs (some are small), and around 3/4 of a page. In the essay I have 3 “reasons” that I want to attend Duke. The thing is, I’m using a very unconventional approach to answering the prompt, and if I condense some paragraphs to meet the limit, it’ll seriously detract from its effectiveness as a whole. Does anyone want to read it by the way?