<p>I just did my why columbia essay and i was wondering if someone can read it for content/grammar mistakes. Most of my friends arent that intelligent and my parents and the rest of my family dont know english that well, so i dont really have anyone except for the people on collegeconfidential to read my essays. So if you would like to help tell me and ill send the essay to you. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>BTW my essay is 821 words which i feel to be way to long, but im not sure on the world limit so if anyone knows can you please tell me?</p>
<p>PM it to me. Class of 2013 here :). Anyway, I had a similar issue last year and I emailed hte admissions office (don’t be afraid to email them. I must have emailed them about 12 times and they didn’t get ****ed off and reject me lol). I remember Lorraine Latouche (i think that’s her name) said about 500 words but as long as it fits onto 1 page, they won’t care. If you can squeeze ~800 words onto a page you’re good… although you’d have to use words like “to, a, the” again and again and again and again…</p>
<p>If this year’s app is the same as last year’s, the Why Columbia section is 600 CHARACTERS. Your main essay (which is just ‘write an essay which communicates a sense of yourself to the reader’) is supposed to be 250-500 words. So if your Why Columbia is 800+ words, it’s WAY too long.</p>
<p>oh shoot. xD I didn’t realize he meant the Why Columbia part… I thought he just chose his own topic for the Personal statemet (which is why i was thinking "err columbia already has a why section). Yeah… 800 words is OMG WAY too long.</p>
<p>haha i kind of just wrote and then at the end i checked how much words i had and it was over 900. I thought it was way too much but i wasnt sure how long its supposed to be so i edited it a little but i still had 821.</p>
<p>Yeah, I get the feeling that Columbia adcom really eschew the ornaments (shall I say) that mark a flavored literary text. They really just want the bare bones, the main ideas if you will. That’s what my essays (blurbs) were like for Columbia–while they are more fully wrought for the other schools–and I got in. So I suggest just write a few sentences on the essence of what you’re talking about; cut all the junk out. I remember that for some questions asking you to describe a major EC, three sentences put you over the limit.</p>
<p>I’m sure you have plenty of feedback, I’m a Boston College Grad student and I’ve been published in a New York Times affiliate magazine, so if you still need some help, you can send to me :)</p>