<p>I know there's no limit, but I'm afraid I'm getting carried away. Haha. Mine is about 3 pages, single-spaced, but I think it carries your attention pretty well.</p>
<p>What are your lengths?</p>
<p>My two short answers are two paragraph each, but each are about 300-400 words. I wonder if that's too long. I have yet to write the long essay. I can't think of anything to write about.</p>
<p>I haven't done the short answers yet, but knowing my style, they'll probably be anything but short. Haha. I'll have to, like, write seven pages and start cutting.</p>
<p>both short essays were a page long single spaced. my extended was 4 pages long, single spaced, small font, with no margins on the top and sides. i was surprised when i got my letter.</p>
<p>"Respond to Questions 1 and 2 on the next two screens by writing a paragraph or two for each question."</p>
<p>ah??!?!? where did these page-long monstrosities come from?</p>
<p>how did you all start your essay?</p>
<p>cuz for short essay #2, i'm afraid my two-paragraphs will sound too general and too..informal</p>
<p>and my short responses are not longer than a page double-spaced each.</p>
<p>i thought that was suppose to be the length ...</p>
<p>Mine were somewhat lengthy -- about 1.5~2 pages single-spaced for all three.</p>
<p>#1 : 818 words
#2 : 780 words
#3 : 1,104 words</p>
<p>Heh, mine too.
maybe a teensy bit shorter on the first two.</p>
<p>U of C is quite unorthodox in its essay requirements--there really is no right length. As long as you aren't getting excessively wordy (7 pages is really too much) the essay length is fine. In fact, when I applied I was worried about it length as well until I read how much they don't care about the length on the uncommon blog website.</p>