<p>I went to a talk at Kenyon College and they recommended 250-500 words. I'm at 450 and no where near done...crap...haha.</p>
<p>Mine is 580 and change last I looked.</p>
<p>587 exactly.</p>
<p>695 exactly. About one page single space, which is what Caltech wanted for its supplement.</p>
<p>I am submitting the Common Application to several schools, and all the teacher recommendations have been sent out using the Common App's forms. However, one school (Princeton) has a supplement to the application which requires an essay along with the essay that the Common App requires.</p>
<p>I have written two essays, A and B. Essay A can fulfill Princeton's prompt, but Essay B can not. Both essays fulfill the Common App's prompt. I consider Essay A to be the better of the two, so I would like all the schools to see it.</p>
<p>My question is: would it be possible to have two "versions" of the Common App? That is, for Princeton, I would like to submit B as the Common App essay and A for their supplement. For the other colleges, I would like to submit A as the Common App essay, and work in B for their supplements if I can. Is this possible?</p>
<p>Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>yes, on the intructions page of the common app there are instructions to setting up a alternate version, but you have to have submitted your original app to atleast one place.
also if possible do not make a mistake i did, where i added the teachers and then moved them to the alternate version, it messes everything up!</p>
<p>Thanks for that prompt help- I am glad to see that somebody else has tried setting up alternate versions (I am so so stressed abt it- ugh!) . I did see the info they had posted about setting up alternate versions, it was not clear if a whole essay could be changed. I also did not clearly understand what mistake you made?</p>
<p>yes actually upload another essay for the main common app one if you would like and your situation you want to.
my mistake was assigning my teachers to the university's school forms BEFORE moving it to the alternate application. Then when i moved it, i checked and the only teacher showed up for BOTH the teacher spots twice. My other teacher isn't showing up. ugh</p>
<p>"I went to a talk at Kenyon College and they recommended 250-500 words. I'm at 450 and no where near done...crap...haha."</p>
<p>Seriously? I'm in the same boat, but I thought the common app essay was going to be a piece of cake after those 300 word essays.
Apparently not. :</p>
<p>Well, my main essay was about 900 words, my big problem/question though is whether to include a picture in my additional info section... It is pertinant to my essay, is taken by myself, and (I think) really augments my point. Should I risk it?
Thank you in advance for helping me!!!
Grateful</p>
<p>sk8rgal666: None of us are adcoms. I see nothing wrong with it, but some people might. Go do what you want.</p>
<p>Thank you!!!!</p>
<p>Mine was about 900 words and 2 pages double spaced. My english teacher told be 2 pages is the max as a general rule of thumb.</p>
<p>mine is 878 at the moment :\ im worried that it is too long</p>
<p>It's funny. When I looked at this thread a few weeks ago, I got really scared and started screwing around with my essays. Nothing seemed right after a while and I decided to go back to my almost 700 word essays (even for yale, which has quite a threatening sounding comment on essay length).</p>
<p>If the essay seems right, don't do anything. It's not like they're going to look at it and say: "Wow, this kid went 156 words over the limit. That's about five whole lines! Let's move on to someone who hacked their essay to bits so they wouldn't disobey us."</p>
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<p>Here Here!!!!</p>
<p>Mine is 1,013. It's only three pages, double spaced though. I was worried it was short :/</p>
<p>With all due respect to admissions counselors, I think 1000 words would be a better standard--provided, of course, that people don't add filler to get to that mark. It seems strange to be turning in 2,000 (and even 3000) word essays to teachers, then have the mark for a college essay set so low. </p>
<p>Conciseness and clarity are always important, of course. But it's hard to write a truly impactful, moving and inspiring essay when you only have a few hundred words with which to work.</p>
<p>(Mine was 744 words, by the way.)</p>
<p>Mine's 1,100. I won't cut down on anything. If I cut down, it would change the point of the essay. So I am just hoping I am not annoying adcoms to much with reading it...</p>
<p>Below is a quote form another thread...my D essay is 748...these below seem so short - is it because they are only excerpts??</p>
<p>quote:from "Early Decision Applications Up despite Financial Meltdown" tread in parents form
JHS, the article implies rejection was solely due to a few spelling mistakes, I somehow doubt it. Dartmouth's dir of admission addressed the very issue of how applications are looked at in terms of grammer and writing in a recent article in the alumni magazine and said content is what counts.</p>