<p>513 - 1 page at 12 Font</p>
<p>636 words exactly. Any spacing is fine, but 1.5 or double spacing is easier on the eyes. </p>
<p>Don’t go over 1000 guys, and try to keep it under 800. </p>
<p>Font doesn’t really matter. Times New Roman, Georgia, and Cambria are all good, classic, easy to digest fonts.
Still, don’t put your essay in some “creative” font such as comic sans, helvetica, joker’s font, handwriting fonts, or any other abnormal fonts. It doesn’t do anything except make it harder to read.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you all!</p>
<p>My finalized <em>rough draft</em> is about 620 words right now.</p>
<p>Mine has 796 words</p>
<p>Mine’s 840.</p>
<p>Mine’s 500 on the dot. Nice lol</p>
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<p>via, I am curious: on what basis do you say this? common sense or are you an admissions person who actually reads apps and essays? THere are over 3,000 colleges - I know lots do not require essays, but I bet there is a lot of variation over the colleges and even over admissions folk. Obviously, readability is essential. But what is the consequence of exceeding 1000 words?</p>
<p>would they nix an app based on something where there is no possibility of guaranteeing ownership - unlike a transcript and stdized test scores?</p>
<p>Are we writing an essay or a haiku? </p>
<p>Maybe its like the ACT - don’t think too much. after all, it’s college. :)</p>
<p>If there is , or should be, an upper limit, then why does n’t the college provide that guidance to the poor students? It seems odd that there would be this maximum but no transparency as to what it is. But it does provide CC eyeballs and clicks.</p>
<p>oops, I exceeded my 140 chars. I will twitter no more forever. :(</p>
<p>If I were an admissions officer reading a mediocre essay, I’d probably just put it aside after finishing one page. And each additional page break offers the officer a chance to decide that nothing new is going to happen, so they might as well just stop. Page breaks are “natural stopping points,” especially since you can usually get a sense of how good an essay is going to be from the first paragraph or so.</p>
<p>Or they could slog through it and then feel annoyed at the end. </p>
<p>Basically, only write long essays if you’re confident that your writing is engaging and compelling. You don’t want to risk making your already tired and overworked admissions officers bored or even a bit annoyed at you. They won’t advocate for you if they’re bored or annoyed with you.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if your essay is really that good and you are sure that it would lose something if you tightened it (and usually tightening up the prose is a plus), then that’s your call.</p>
<p>990 words? Oh jeez am I *****ed?</p>
<p>Ahaha, mine ended up going to around 600. I love not being constrained to 250 words or 300 characters after doing all of Stanford’s supplements @__@</p>
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<p>now that’s is interesting point in this inscrutable admissions process. entertain the adcoms to make their admittedly (ahem) death march of work wading through all those apps a better experience - for them. I hope they don’t forget about the 4 yrs of work the HS student put into the process and whether that person wd be a success at the college.</p>
<p>Then it might be like the following: admissions officer John reads an APP, maybe likes it and thinks there is a potential admit here, then puts it in the potential admit stack; then later all of the other admission officers ‘discuss’ or hash out each of their potential admits. The more an adcom ‘likes’ an app, the more that person might advocate it over the others?</p>
<p>Bottom line: Only make it 750+ words if cutting down detracts from the overall flow of the essay. End of story.</p>
<p>Colleges only present the student with a MINIMUM limit…so let’s stop assuming there is a maximum limit. As long as it flows well and is an quick read (ie isn’t boring), then you’re fine, whether it be 500 words or 1200 words.</p>
<p>I use 958 words, I felt it was well worth it.</p>
<p>Mine’s 791 words.</p>
<p>Mine’s 568. I feel like it’s exactly what I wanted to say and it elaborates everything while staying concise. I’m not sure what’s “right” or “wrong” - or if there is any right or wrong- but above 1000 seems extremely excessive to me.</p>
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<p>-agreed! lol</p>
<p>Wow, my essay is just barely over 600 words and I thought it was long. I was under the impression that you shouldn’t top 500, but I guess there’s reason to break that guideline.</p>
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<p>Certainly long for a tweet.</p>
<p>Click.</p>
<p>Mine is 750. =(</p>
<p>Mine is about 670 words; I am told it is quite funny. I don’t think it should be longer than 800 or 900 words, and no shorter than 500 words. When I let someone read this same essay when it was 800 words, she said she felt like it was long as she was reading it. IDK to each his own, if the entire thing is engaging, your reader may not even notice it is 2000 words long.</p>