<p>On one of the questions where they ask to elaborate on an activity, I used around 250 words (150 word limit) but well under the character count. Do you think colleges will care?</p>
<p>250 words over 150 words is well over the limit by 40%. Would you want to be caught going over 25 in a school zone?</p>
<p>Anyway, I am sure you can do something to trim it -- I had 160, then noting some of the writing sounded cheesy, reworded it with a side effect of bringing it down to 150, and further re-editing actually brought it under the limit (with the ability to exploit adding several more words in the right places). </p>
<p>There is bound to be quite a few areas where you can merge several little words (usually a verb phrase) into one word.</p>
<p>Mine was originally about 260, like yours. It's 200 now. i think i'm going to leave it. But I don't know if I should or not.</p>
<p>caught going over 2 in a school zone...lol that's classic.</p>
<p>Like galoisien, I "uncheesed" mine from about 170 to 149.</p>