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How many characters per essay (short vs long)?
Do characters include spaces?
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Thanks!</p>
<p>Where is this info posted? Stanford's website only says 1/3 page and 1 page.</p>
<p>Easily found, but if you must know, here are the counts (including spaces):</p>
<p>Short: 1600 characters
Long: 4900 characters</p>
<p>Someone should just sticky this info already...</p>
<p>^^ not exactly true. For me, it was about 1596 for the short essays (and maybe 4896 for the long). For some reason, I'd still have space on the page, but the characters would just stop at about 1596.</p>
<p>Well it IS 1600, but it cuts you off for a bunch of reasons.</p>
<p>Reformatting MSWord's ", ', and -'s takes up more characters. Tab counts as one character (it shows as one character). Line breaks count as 2 spaces. And I believe if you go over the space allowed, it cuts you off too. But if you can fit 1600 characters, it SHOULD let you do it.</p>
<p>Having said that, I don't think I left mine at exactly 1600.</p>
<p>no, it isn't exactly 1600- it truncated mine at 1598 for one of the short answers and 1596 for the other two. The character count is according to Stanford's counter below the box for the answer so the word count according to MS Word shouldn't matter.</p>
<p>Look at what the anxiety is doing to us- we're squabbling over something as trivial as character counts. :p</p>
<p>julyinoh- were you born in july? because I just got that. :o</p>
<p>Can you guys get line breaks or indents? If so, how?</p>
<p>You can just press the enter key to get a line break but it counts as one character. if you want indentation, you have to use a number of spaces, which drastically reduces the characters available for the rest of the essay.</p>
<p>I got the same result as fuzzylogic.. It totally freaked me out when I hit 'preview' and I went back and half of my words were missing. I tried this like twenty times before I decided I had to cut back more characters. ):</p>
<p>When you preview the ap in html does the formatting look different than the final pdf preview? Because adding spaces and returns isn't changing the format of my essay in the html preview. I'm afraid to do the final pdf preview because it looks like it might submit the ap and I'm not ready. Can you look at this without sending it in?</p>
<p>The formatting does look different, so be sure to check the pdf version. You can view the pdf without submitting. I did it like 10 million times..</p>
<p>Fuzzylogic: Yea, I was born in July. But I picked the username cuz it's fun to type... =)</p>
<p>The formatting does look different, so be sure to check the pdf version. You can view the pdf without submitting. I did it like 10 million times..</p>
<p>Fuzzylogic: Yea, I was born in July. But I picked the username cuz it's fun to type... =)</p>
<p>thanks -- I didn't want to send them junk by mistake!</p>
<p>So basically what you see in the PDF version is what the college will see right?</p>
<p>Do you guys think they will care if the last word of your essay is incomplete because it was cut off by weird formatting reasons?
Just little mistakes that made the essay imperfect/incomplete at the end?</p>
<p>yeah is the PDF file we see the exact same file they will receive?</p>