<p>I wrote an essay that I really like for the CommonApp personal statement, and it's about 450 words which I think is about right. But then I was looking at my state public school (University of Washington-Seattle), which has a prompt that is almost exactly the same, and has a word count of 500-650 and a recommended essay length of 2 pages. Mine is maybe 2/3 of one page.</p>
<p>This seems really long to me after working to cut down all my essays for so long!</p>
<p>Is it bad for my essay to be shorter than the recommended length? I think it's kind of an unusual problem to have.</p>