<p>Mine is at exactly 900 words right now, and I feel like that might be too long.
However, they don't give a word limit, so I was wondering what y'all thought?
I do plan on cutting it down, my question is: how much?</p>
<p>With any college essay, around 500 words is a pretty good ballpark. They want you to answer the question, but you don’t need to be verbose; typically, they like to see that you can be concise, anyway.</p>
<p>900 is way too long. I would try to get it below 500</p>
<p>Is around 700 still too long? I know 500 is standard, but I’ve also heard of people doing just fine with 600 and 700 word supplement essays.</p>
<p>My essay was around 780 words.</p>
<p>lyssa</p>
<p>How much time have you spent editing your essay. My experience is that with effort, I can usually cut about a third from an early draft and still retain all the content. If you haven’t done so already, see how much you can tighten yours up (and see what the word count is then).</p>
<p>You should cut it down as much as you can while still covering all of the topics you want to cover.</p>
<p>Based on no experience whatsoever, I’d think that a well-written 700 word essay would be ok. A poorly edited 700 word essay is probably not.</p>
<p>Any length essay is fine, just make sure it isn’t uninteresting. You could probably turn in a novel and they’d be okay with it as long as it was a New York Times Best Seller about why you want to be at NU. </p>
<p>Mine was a little over 400 words.</p>
<p>i don’t remember how long mine was. i would advise you to aim for 500-650, though.</p>
<p>remember that the department <em>literally</em> has to read thousands of essays</p>
<p>Mine was around 700.</p>