<p>I'm applying online, but my essay is beyond the character count that the common app provides. Should I condense the essay even more, or should I send it in my mail? Are we allowed to do that?</p>
<p>I think you're allowed to do that, but in that case you should send the whole thing by mail. I think it would be better to condense it. How did you go over 6000 characters? That's like 1000 words if you average 5 a word with one space between.</p>
<p>well, its mainly for the supplemental part. like the "two paragraph" thing doesn't exactly say how many words.. just two well developed paragraphs... </p>
<p>also, if i do submit it in, i just scrap the whole online thing?</p>
<p>You could submit the main application online and send the supplement in the mail. I don't know if there's a rule against that.</p>