<p>I've encountered a very frustrating bug, it seems, in the character limit on the common application.</p>
<p>Even when an essay is well within the limits with, say, 10 characters remaining, I still receive an error saying it is over the limit. I have to erase 10 or even 20 more characters just for it to go through.</p>
<p>I guess it's not really that awful to have to erase a bit more, but it really upsets me when I struggle to get an essay under a limit, only to be forced to erase more when I succeed. And it really freaks me out so close to a deadline to have these sort of glitches.</p>