<li>How many words for each essay? They give you characters, but rougly how many words for each?</li>
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<p>Question #1 (1500 character limit)
Question #2 (500 character limit)
Question #3 (5000 character limit)</p>
<li>What’s a good format, or way of organizing the activity document?</li>
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<li><p>If they give a character limit, go by the character limit. I went through this same thing, I kept it roughly 50 under the character limit for each question. If they don't give a word limit, they can't penalize you if you're under the character limit... at least, that's what I'd like to think.</p></li>
<li><p>Get the book "Rock Hard Apps." they have a great format to follow. Or, just make some kind of a table, and in the order of importance to you (that's really critical) list the activities, give the dates in which you participated in them, and maybe a little description / awards. use this part to BRAG.</p></li>
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<p>good luck.</p>
<p>That being said, and while it makes some sense to plead ignorance to what the paper application says, I think the word limit on the paper app = (char limit on the internet)/10.</p>
<p>And a table is what I did, but I've also heard of people just writing paragraph-form descriptions; I don't think either is necessarily preferred.</p>
<p>Rock Hard Apps was the most helpful book evar.</p>
<p>Do you think that character limit / 10 thing applies when you don't post the pesonal statement in the field provided? I uploaded mine as a word document and it was converted to PDF. I swear, if they cut off ONE WORD of all of that hard work... ah, it's too late to think about it now.</p>
<p>and yeah i'd recommend Rock Hard Apps to just about anyone, it's getting the IvyWise info without the 33,000 dollars.</p>
<p>I don't think the Brown admissions board trains their eyes to stop after the 5,000th character. It is for these exceptions that they allow you to upload a document or mail in a paper one (or if you're like me because you're snobby enough to upload it as a word document so that the adcoms can catch your utterly <i>essential</i> use of italics. But yeah, I'd say you're fine.</p>