<p>Ok. so my long columbia essay is around 750 words.. It was originally 1200 words and I couldn't find any room for tossing out any "wordy" phrase. I know columbia says "we prefer that you keep your word limit to 500 words...". how bad is 700 words? I know they don't count those words and mine nicely fits in one page. Will this negatively affect my admission chance?</p>
<p>It's 50% over. Too long. Mine was 608 words. Try to get it ~600 and it's fine.</p>
<p>crap. i already submitted mine. lol</p>
<p>hey, no worries. some are 800. if there's no redundancy and if every word was necessary, then it should be okay. the topic must have been substantial. :)</p>