<p>for this section if i am uploading a document is it ok for it to exceed the amount of characters?</p>
<p>Do they even let you to exceed? I remember they didn’t let me exceed the number of words for the short answer.</p>
<p>luud, I’m attaching images to my additional upload…</p>
<p>But that is a very good question. Technically, you have 500 kb (I think?) and you can fit a LOT of nice things in a 500 kb PDF :P</p>
<p>this is for the additional comments of the application not for the short answer to the supplement</p>
<p>Yes, you can exceed the “character limit” for a file upload. There’s a character limit for the text-entry field, but there’s a file size limit for the file upload. Two different things. There is no character limit on the file upload (well, actually there is – the binary file must include fewer than 512,000 characters total :)).</p>
<p>may i ask what a binary file is?</p>
<p>Sure, sorry about that, and it’s not even the most accurate term I could have used. Please don’t get hung up on this while you’re working on applications, because it really has nothing to do with applying to college and I don’t want to make you late! :D</p>
<p>A binary file is, essentially, a file that’s not strictly text. Usually we refer to programs (e.g., winword.exe) as binary files. Pictures and mp3’s are other examples of binary files.</p>
<p>In this case, what I meant was that your file has a limit of 512,000 characters, but you don’t get to use all those characters for typing. That’s because programs like Word will use up a lot of them with formatting information and other stuff that tells the program what to do with the stuff you typed.</p>
<p>Example: geek_son’s resume contains a little over 5,000 characters that he typed, but the Word document is 60k (roughly 60,000 characters). All the extra characters are from the way Word encodes the file. And if you just opened it up with Notepad, it would look like a little bit of text scattered in a whole lot of garbage. The garbage means something to Word, but not so much to you or me.</p>
<p>Sorry about the digression. I am, after all, a geek mom. ;)</p>
<p>ok thanks for the clarification
so if i uploaded a document that they didn’t comment on the number of characters
then it’s ok?</p>
<p>astonisher. wut kind of photos did u upload?</p>