<p>Does anyone else feel like the 1800 character limit is a little low? Is there any way around this other than submitting it off-line? </p>
<p>But anyways. Do you know if they look at this at all in assigning roommates?</p>
<p>Hey, the adcoms have to read THREE of these essays plus your profile questions. 1800 is generous. Stick to it, you don’t want to annoy the people reading your app.</p>
<p>And in any case I’d write it as if they were assigning roommates. Just more incentive to be yourself in writing the essay.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with above post.</p>
<p>1800 is around 350 words. A lot of the threads talk about the room-mate and Why Stanford essays like they are Common App essays; they are not. They are much shorter.</p>
<p>The common app website people told me that if you exceed the character limit you will not be able to submit your application - and Stanford does not accept paper applications. That means you’re stuck getting your essay into the 1800 character limit. </p>
<p>Also - this essay has nothing to do with roommate selection - it is a admissions essay.</p>