<p>I came to understood the common application essay had a word limit of 500 words and a min. of 250. My friend pointed out to me the other day that it has no limit stated. Is this true? I'm really suprised, I always believed it was 500 words and wrote my first drafts based on that.</p>
<p>there is not limit, but 500 words is generally the sweet spot. Anything over 650 gets to be too much.</p>
<p>Alright, just making sure, cause mines prob going to be like 510 words or something I think</p>
<p>Woops, I guess my 1170 word essay won't please adcoms...</p>
<p>Our school's guidance counselor said generally a page or a page and a half, something along those lines..if that helps..</p>
<p>Whoa mine's like 1000, do I really have to shorten it because it is really good.</p>
<p>a tufts adcom who came to our school said that they're ****ed if its more than a page and like obvious that its way way high in word count (like 1000)</p>
<p>ehhhhh i wrote abt 800! - -,,,</p>
<p>i got a 539 essay and its sweet, it took alot of editing though.</p>
<p>Great .... I have a common app essay that's 1050 words long. Time to get out my red pen and start crossing things out.</p>
<p>Are you guys sure about this? Just asking, I'm yet in my drafting stages so i'll have to cut and edit later anyway.</p>
<p>lol I thought most people knew this...</p>
<p>...seriously? Crap.</p>
<p>my thing is, it doesn't say anywhere (except on the yale website, to my knowledge) that the common app essay is supposed to be 500 words. There is a 250 minimum, but no maximum.</p>
<p>yea but the popular theory is that it should be limited to a page, not necessarily a strict 500 words.</p>
<p>princessbell, what exactly does the yale website say? can you post a link, por favor?</p>