<p>Yes, you should count articles in your word count, but if your essay is approximately the right length, it will be fine – no one in MIT admissions is going around counting the words in everybody’s application essay.</p>
<p>Yes, you should count articles in your word count, but if your essay is approximately the right length, it will be fine – no one in MIT admissions is going around counting the words in everybody’s application essay.</p>