Does a space count as a character in the EC essay?

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
1

<p>Quick question: in the 1000-character EC essay, does a space count as a character? Does each punctuation mark count as a character? Thanks!</p>

2

<p>I think that they both do. In any case, extra characters will be cut-off in the print preview.</p>

3

<p>that is correct. this would count as 51 characters.</p>