<p>Hi all</p>
<p>For the Common Application writing sample, I'm choosing my own topic and thusly I have a rather obscure structuring so other samples don't really help me much with this issue.</p>
<p>Does anybody have any advice on what roughly the final wordcount should be? How many words over the limit is allowed, and at what point would they just get plain annoyed? It says 250 words minimum on the site, but that's purely a minimum, is there any real ceiling? At this point, I'm guessing it's going to end up at about 600-650 words.</p>
<p>Help me out please, I'm trying to finish this essay up by tonight and I don't really want to have to take out 300 words if I'm wrong :-)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>(shameful bump) I'm on a deadline set by my mom or I cant go out tomorrow, I'm up to 470 words please fast respond :)</p>
<p>you should try to limit your essay to 1 page, 12 point font, single space (meaning around 650 words or less)</p>
<p>lol, wish my mom could put me on a deadline. then I can stop procrastinating.</p>
<p>my mom put me on a deadline and that's exactly why i'm procrastinating =/</p>
<p>haha, when is your mom making your college essays due?</p>
<p>When school starts in about a week or so.</p>
<p>Hell, I haven't finished my summer reading yet. College essays are totally a pipe dream.</p>
<p>Same here, I'm supposed to have rough drafts of like four of them. I have about 4 paragraphs of one haha</p>
<p>I think the artificial deadlines have only made me procrastinate more.. the only one that matters is November 1st after all</p>