<p>So I realize that it's 150 words or fewer for the Common Application Short Answer section about one of your activities..</p>
<p>Well, Microsoft says it's 150 words and I counted and recounted and always got 150. But, strangely enough, the Common App won't accept it, saying it's too long and exceeds the word limit. I have to erase 5 words to make it save it. </p>
<p>I thought that it was counting as words so I erased them, NOPE
I thought that it was counting abbreviations as separate words so I took it out but I still have to erase four more to make it save so, NOPE</p>
<p>I really don't understand... :( This 150 words was the most condensed I could get it at as well and it changes many things if I erase five words.</p>
<p>I searched the whole forum and it seems most people don't have this type of a problem. Does the word counter count characters? My characters excluding spaces is 870 which isn't big at all either so I'm not exactly sure why this is happening...</p>
<p>I’m just guessing, and I’m sorry if this doesn’t help, but I think that section also imposes a character limit. You may have had so many long words that you exceeded the character limit.</p>
<p>I think so too…I’ve been experimenting and I think the character limit is 1000 (including spaces).</p>
<p>I’ve checked some threads and it turns out some people have submitted short answers that are over 150 words so I am guessing they have a character limit…</p>
<p>Why don’t they just say 1000 characters max approximately 150? like they did for Additional Information?</p>
<p>Agh, well I finally fit it somehow cutting out a whole phrase.</p>
<p>At least on the Stanford supplement, common app was doing some weird stuff with character limits, like saying you had gone over when you still had 4 characters left. I don’t know if it’s the same thing here, but probably the best you can do is just reword things so they fit.</p>
like they did for Additional Information?</p>