<p>how long do people suggest supplements to be?
my common app essay is around upper 600 but i have absolutely no idea how long my supplement should be. should it be longer? or shorter? maybe around 300 words or maybe the same length as my regular essay?</p>
<p>im totally confused</p>
<p>Supplement for which school?</p>
<p>About 700
Mine was 686</p>
<p>well for any school. dunno arent all the supplements pretty much the same?</p>
<p>like what are the specific qualities of this college/university (and specific school in the university) that make you want to apply? in what ways do you hope to take advantage of those qualities?</p>
<p>Mine is a few words over 500...btw what does "bump" mean? :)</p>
<p>I have around 600 right now.
I heard most colleges will accept anything from 500-750.
Anything longer than 750 should be PHENOMENAL or else...</p>
<p>lol...mine is 499 words! I might need to add 1 word, although I kind of like that it's 499.</p>
<p>prepre, "bump" is basically just a way to move your thread up to the top of the forum so more people see it. You are "bumping" the thread up.</p>
<p>my english teacher told me its best to write no more than 2 pages</p>
<p>I cut 600 words out of mine down to 900, and it's not going any farther from there without losing its meaning. It feels so bald now!</p>
<p>573! (not factorial...)</p>
<p>Hey guys I have like 955, should I REALLY consider lowering it? Will it hurt me, even if it is a good essay?</p>
<p>I would try to shorten it some. The general consensus (Columbia even says this on their app) seems to be around 500 at most.</p>
<p>My essay's 931 words, as I have already stated, but I already sent in my application to my ED school (Cornell).
Screwed?
I feel that every sentence had a lot of content, but will the lengthiness count against me?</p>
<p>Isn't there "no word limit" for the common app essay this year??</p>
<p>Mine is 835 right now, but I still need some revisions to be done. It doesn't seem that long when looking at it. All I can do is echo others' question... should this be shortened?</p>
<p>Enigma, I'm at 835 words too. And that's after I shortened it down haha.</p>
<p>I'm interested in this Yale talk, since I'm applying there SCEA. Did anyone actually talk to a college rep or email one and ask?</p>
<p>Basically, I think if you have an essay approaching 1000ish words, you just need to be sure that whoevers reading it is completely engaged, in other words the reader actually wants to read the entire essay. No fluff.</p>
<p>After reading some of these responses I'm beginning to get a bit worried. I already thought that my essay was a tad too long and I was planning on trimming it down a bit, but now I feel that it is way too massive (it's about 1,000 words and 3 full pages). Will I actually have less of a chance at being accepted if I have a college essay that is longer than usual? I feel that it flows nicely and has a strong focus, and one of my teachers that revised it said that it was so smooth that it actually seemed shorter than it really was. My aunt who is an alumna for Brown also revised it and didn't seem to think that the length was a problem; in fact, she urged me to write more.</p>
<p>So my question is, should I try to shorten the length even more, although it may wind up taking away some of my key points, or should I keep it the way it is and force the admissions officer to read 30 seconds more than the norm?</p>
<p>I was told anywhere from 500-800 words is good and 800-900 is pushing it to the max. any more than 1,000 and it MUST be cut. that's what my english teacher said.</p>
<p>davidthegoose: It doesn't mean they won't read it, or that you won't be accepted. But think about it. Adcoms have to read many, many of these essays. They will not appreciate you going to over the general limit. Unless, that is, your essay is so great it doesn't seem like a chore to read it. So, it's up to you. But if it was me, I'd shorten it up a bit.</p>
<p>(My essay, btw, is 686 words. It used to be about 900, and I swore I couldn't cut it down without losing meaning. Low and behold, a few weeks later, I was able to shorten it by about 1/4, and it's much stronger than when I started.)</p>