<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I'm filling up the common app right now, and I know both of my essays are a good 50 words over the limit (the personal statement and short answer ones), but they both display ifne on the preview pdf.</p>
<p>I'm wondering whether anyone else has the same experience, or even whether any of you ever did receive a limit. I tried putting in a bunch over the limit and it still seemed to come out fine. SO yeh, just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience.</p>
<p>yea mine are longer too.. i think as long as you arnt wordy or carry anything on too long then it's fine, 50 words is fine but 100 is not lol.</p>
<p>I think it doesn't matter how long your long essay is as long as it is concise and interesting, mine is 800</p>
<p>Aye, 740 words that are essential!</p>
<p>I heard that the Common App (online) puts a strict limit on number of words... or did I just hear wrong?</p>
<p>It annoyed me to find out Brown's online app does that. Oh well, I shortened down the essay in question.</p>
<p>Online i believe it does, but i send all my apps by paper...</p>
<p>mine is 1000...is this ok?</p>
<p>i mean everyone says its a sweet essay and they were really into it
but is this too long?- it fits in the common app space</p>
<p>My short essay on my interest is 250 words</p>
<p>Long essay is about 450</p>
<p>I think 1000 is way too much. It asks for 500. I think that would just show that you can't follow directions. I think it was Yale that had something on their website to that effect. That is twice over. </p>
<p>50 words over is absolutely fine, maybe even 100. But beyond that unless you are a Pulitzer Prize winner it is probably unnecessary.</p>