<p>"Please tell us what you find most appealing about Columbia and why."</p>
<p>"Limiting yourself to the space provided, briefly describe which single activity/interest listed above represents your most meaningful commitment and why."</p>
<p>Any rough limit?</p>
<p>Are you doing the application online? If you are, those questions limit you to a (ridiculous) 600 and 300 characters, respectively, including spaces. If you’re doing a paper app, I’d say give yourself more space than the online version does–I really found it difficult to whittle my thoughts down to those tiny spaces–but not too much more. I’d say 12-14 sentences for “Why Columbia” and 6-8 for the extracurricular.</p>
<p>Damn. That’s like 50 and 100 words.</p>