<p>When I was writing my essay, I got a bit carried away; it's around 860 words right now. If anybody wants to a) tell me what the usual word/character count is for a Stanford long essay or b) pm me to read my essay, that would be really helpful.</p>
<p>Ill proofread.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if the Common Application main essay can be longer than 500 words because I notice that many of my friends and seniors wrote their essays for like 1000 words and many of them still got accepted into really great colleges</p>