<p>My essay is about 640 words long and I don't really want to chop up the essay. (500 word limit) Is it all right to upload the document to the MIT application website even though it exceeds the limit but is below 50 KB?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>Yep, as long as the extra words are necessary for what you are saying. I believe mine was around 650 and I was accepted.</p>
<p>Yea, just make sure it fits on that one page.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can exceed the limit. Just don't be ridiculous about it (1500 words in a 500 word essay).</p>
<p>I would try to cut it down just a wee bit anyways. See if there's any superfluous words that you don't need. Ask someone else to read it and ask whether there's anything they feel you could cut. In most cases, from my experience, you can probably cut at least 30, if not more. It's probably ok to be over, but not by too much. Try to aim for 550 if you can. If you can't, it's probably fine, but it never hurts to try, right?</p>
<p>I would aim to not exceed one page- print preview your application, and if your essay is over, then chop it up.</p>
<p>I know you may think it's perfect, but you aren't a fair judge. Read it out loud to yourself, have a friend read it, and get it down to one page.</p>
<p>For the record, I think mine was around 580 or so, and went literally to the last line of the page.</p>
<p>my essay exceeded 1 page on the print preview, and I got in. there was not ANYTHING I could have cut, I spent months cutting it to the VERY bare bones and it would not have made sense with anything less. so, if it is really of high quality, and can not be cut at all as it is, leave it.</p>
<p>The admissions officers do see the full essay even if it exceeds one page on the pdf preview, right? Because when I preview the essay, the words just get cut off at the end of the page and do not carry onto a new one. :-/ I've spent quite a while cutting it down to the bare minimum too.</p>
<p>What you see in print preview is what they get, to the best of my knowledge. Find a way to get everything visible. Perhaps you need to insert line breaks?</p>
<p>What about the word limit for the short essays - is it necessary to exactly stick to the limit in order to show that you can express yourself concise and to the point or is it okay if you have about 140 words, like I have? Everything still fits in the space provided.</p>
<p>I had around that much and yeah, I just left it as it was because it fit in the space. Both of mine were in the 100-150 range ish.</p>
<p>Wait a minute... how did you guys submit such long essays? Mine is about 570 and it says that my response is too long.</p>
<p>If it says response is too long, that means there are too many characters to fit in the textbox.</p>
<p>what about the 100 word essays? Both of the 100 word essays for my app are around 150-170. What should I do?! I like them both.</p>
<p>Mine is 114 and 100, i'd suggest u cut it down to 120...but thats just my opinion</p>
<p>did you guys double space or single space your essays??... If I double space or even 1.5-space my essay there is no way it will be under a page...</p>
<p>i did my single space...double between paragraphs</p>
<p>if I single space I can fit it into one page...</p>
<p>Mine is a little under 700 words right now (cut down from ~800)... is that too long???</p>
<p>ok... I just had to add a few more sentences... now its 750 words (it's over 1 page) and I just can't bring myself to cut anything out...</p>
<p>what should I do?</p>
<p>HELP!!!</p>
<p>theres a problem when I uploaded the essay.. when i view it in MS word, everything is perfect, but after I upload, it removes all the apostrophes (like wouldn't becomes wouldnt and didn't becomes didnt)</p>