<p>So transfer students' version of commonapp is quite different from first-year applicants... understandable.</p>
<p>I have a question about the "Additional Information" section.
Should this be written in essay format? It just says vaguely to upload a document.</p>
<p>Also, what they want in this section: "details of circumstances or qualifications not reflected in the application."
Can this include studying abroad, or would there be a separate section for this? (So far, if there is, I seriously cannot find it).</p>
<p>On top of that, for the "Personal Essay" there is a min. amount of words but no max.
What do you estimate should be ideal? IIRC my first-year one was roughly 2 pages double-spaced (as said by my lit teacher should be).</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a section for putting study abroad. Yes, you could put a brief statement about your study abroad experience, I don’t think it’s really a place for an additional essay.</p>
<p>So would an appropriate length for that be about 200-300 words, half of the Personal Essay, you think? Should I write it formally, like an essay? </p>
<p>Ahh. Sorry for all these questions.</p>
<p>I only believe it’s worth mentioning because it certainly helped my growth and is part of why I’m transferring.</p>
<p>200 sounds a little lean to me. I’d say 300 is a minimum, mainly because unless there’s a supplemental essay, this is the one place where you can tell a college: why your current school doesn’t work, what you’re looking for, where you’ve come from and what your goals are, why the college you’re applying to is right for you (academically, socially, location, etc.). Most people use the full 500, it’s when essays get substantially longer when it’s a problem.</p>
<p>Additional Information could be as short as you want it to be. It’s where you tell the university of anything that didn’t fit into any other portion of the application that you feel is important for them to know. As for maximum lengths, my friend wrote a 2,000 word personal essay and got into Yale with it. It’s much less about the length, and much more the emotion and everything else that it invokes and portrays about you.</p>