<p>Was the word limit for the additional information (section 9, part 2) reduced recently? I am pretty sure it was since my essay doesn't fit anymore. On an earlier instance, my essay was off-shoot by 59 words. Now, after trimming it down by ~100 words, MyMIT is indicating that the word limit has been exceeded. Is it just me or has this happened to anyone else as well?</p>
<p>What were you getting before? I was getting around ~550 as the limit and I just submitted my application a couple days ago.</p>
<p>The MyMIT application displays an error after exactly 600 words. However, earlier, the error message used to be displayed only after 750 words.</p>
<p>Hm, from my experience 600 sounds like a fairer number.</p>
<p>I conjecture that it is a function of length, because (if you look at the pdf) it automatically reduces font to format. But, that surely wouldn’t account for so many words. Nonetheless, I don’t recall the limit ever letting me go that high.</p>