the common app automatically transfers your essay to the “additional information” section if you go over the amt of characters they allow.
what i don’t understand is, if the suggested word limit is 150, but you write 250, you will still be able to fit it (the additional info section can fit a very large number of characters).
it confuses me that they give us a word limit, but then allow space for so many more words.
so, if i have a 250 word short ans that i want to use, should i? (since it does fit when i preview it in the pdf…)
thanks very much.
p.s. i’m hoping the colleges that receive it won’t actually count the amt of words?