<p>It says 50 words or less. Mine is 63 words. Would it be a problem if i send the supplement by snail mail? Or should I cut out the super tiny anecdotal answer and write “I found out about brown from X. Sounded awesome.” and then send the supplement online…?</p>
<p>Do NOT send by snail mail. If the online form allows you to write 63 words then include the whole thing. If not, to cut it down to 50. Make the anecdote shorter – eliminate adjectives, use symbols instead of writing out numbers, etc.</p>
<p>What is wrong with sending the supplement via snail mail? I really want to know the reason, as I had been planning to send a lot of supplements via snail mail.</p>
<p>Because Brown is totally computerized now. Anything you send snail mail that is a written component of the application is going to be scanned in and viewed on a computer. By mailing it you are giving someone else more work to do and for no reason. Really, you are going to mail in your application because you can’t cut 13 words from an answer? </p>
<p>Obviously art/writing/music samples are different. How many supplements are you sending? Brown DOES NOT want to see too much extraneous material.</p>
<p>Oh I didn’t mean that I would be sending a lot of supplements to Brown. I meant that I was planning to send the supplements of several colleges via snail mail.</p>
<p>I’ll try my best to cut down the words. Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>Word limits are word limits. The supplement says “50 words or fewer.” The typical reaction would be to, you know, write 50 words or fewer.</p>
<p>Honestly, here’s how your question reads to me: “I don’t want this word limit, which is there to make the application process uniform, to apply to me. So, is it okay if I try to cheat the word limit by sending my application in a way that makes it more difficult to detect said cheating?”</p>
<p>Some courts require that litigants swear under penalty of perjury that they have followed formatting requirements, and I always found it so odd that that would be remotely necessary. But your question suggests that maybe college applications should follow suit.</p>
<p>I get what you are saying. After I finally manage to cut down 13 words, I realise that it still has 340 characters. Need to chop again to get rid of the extra 40 characters.</p>