<p>This has probably been discussed before, but how long was everyone's essays?</p>
<p>My 'short' one is about 300, my personal is about 400 and my Gtown ons is about 500. I feel like I covered the topics well but I'm not sure if they are long enough. What do you think?
Thanks!</p>
<p>My "short" was 182, the personal was 571, and the Gtown was 623.</p>
<p>Everything except the Gtown one was borrowed from my Common App, so the word counts correspond to the limits for that (I expanded the short one a bit, though).</p>
<p>I think you're fine.</p>
<p>My short was 150, personal was 550, and Gtown was 692.</p>
<p>short: 385
personal: 520
Gtown: ~350 (but i still need to do some heavy revising)</p>
<p>does anyone think my short essay a little too long?
Its also a little bitter about other people who pretend to be interesting in community service. Is that bitterness something that Gtown will look down upon?</p>
<p>(im starting to see a trend...short< personal< Gtown....not mine)</p>
<p>^I'd be VERY careful about the bitterness. The essay is about something you're interested in? So mention your own community service and highlight how truly interested in it you are. Do NOT criticize others for only doing it to get into college/whatever. This should be an essay about <em>you</em>, not others... showing others in a bad light won't necessarily cast you into a good one.</p>
<p>Excellent advice Savs. I just had a conversation with my daughter who was a little ticked that another player was starting ahead of her when she doesn't work as hard and makes more mistakes and ignores what the coaches tell her etc. I said, you can do nothing about the other person but you can continue to work hard, prove yourself coachable and then talk to the coach about your own efforts. This is saying nothing about the errors of others. She took my advice and was on the starting line up last night.</p>
<p>Do these seem okay?</p>
<p>Short Essay: 350
Person: 665
GTown: 400</p>
<p>The only one I really worry about is the Gtown one being too short?</p>
<p>short: 209
personal: 629
Gtown: 532</p>
<p>Quality, not quantity</p>