Help me cut down essay a bit?

<p>Just finished a draft of an essay for University of Maryland, which has a max word limit of 300. However, my essay is 368. Whoops. </p>

<p>I would love to have some help as to what I should cut out!</p>

<p>If you are willing to help, I'll PM the essay to you straight away :) I am trying to get the app in by November 1, so pretty speedy feedback would be awesome <3</p>

<p>I'm choosing to do an essay of my choice, so I wrote about expectations.</p>

<p>any takers?</p>