<p>is this ok?...i mean i wrote a pretty good essay and I think that cutting it up will take away much of its content. would it be ok to send an essay 100 too long or would they view it as being obsessive or something???
thanks in advance reponses</p>
<p>I would love to know as well, my 250 word essay is 325.</p>
<p>i have no idea too. i try to keep to tghe limit. what's school is this btw?</p>
<p>tufts...the one about y u wanna go there...
i assume that it wont b a problem since they want to know why i want to go there...am i right?</p>
<p>100 over on a 1000 or 2000 word essay is no biggie; 100 over on 200 words is 50% over. What is needed is not cutting; tear up the original and rewrite it.</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>They wouldn't view it as being obsessive, they would view it as failing to follow directions. </p>
<p>From Strunk and White: </p>
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Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
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