Common app essay shortened to a max of 500 words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>see for your self
<a href="https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2012-11CAO_Highlighted.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2012-11CAO_Highlighted.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>The link doesn’t work.</p>

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<p>BUG FIX>>> go to the “Preview of 2011-12 Common Application”
<a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/News.aspx#50[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/News.aspx#50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You just found out?</p>

<p>And it’s not a hard limit. It’s just a suggested cap.</p>

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<p>What was it before?</p>

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<p>Calm down, lol.
Like pi said, it’s not a hard limit.</p>

<p>Generally, your common app essay should be no longer than 2 pages, double spaced, with a Times New Roman font.</p>

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<p>I don’t understand. I think you need more exclamation points to clarify your message.</p>

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<p>If you search through the Common App forum, you’ll find a poster (username WinstonWolfe) that works with Common App. He explains that they STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you limit yourself to 500 words. It is a guideline. The Common App will not automatically cut you off at 500, but you should write no more than 600 words. If you are a good writer, you should be able to get your point across in about 500 words. Remember that adcoms are reading thousands of essays, they want you to be succinct.</p>

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<p>I had fished the perfect essay at 850 words</p>

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<p>There is no such thing as a perfect essay.</p>

<p>And if there was, I’m sure it would be much more concise.</p>

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<p>The OP is going to need half that word allowance for exclamation marks.</p>