How long is YOUR commonapp essay?

College Essays
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<p>Are you all talking about just the regular essay topics the colleges offer you? I assume personal growth fits into what you are talking about?</p>

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<p>1111 words. Eleven is my lucky number! Admissions officers are going to hate me, obviously, but the chance to make it exactly 1,111 words was too much to pass up.</p>

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<p>aren't common app essay supposed to be 250 to 500 words. Mine started at 720something, but I managed to cut it down to about 499. I think with 520 words it would have been great, but my 499 is def. better than the 720 I began with.</p>

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<p>About 550 words.</p>

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<p>530 words =) yay!</p>

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<p>Just keep it arounnd 400-1000. Any longer and the colleges might get too lazy to read your essay...? Just a thought.</p>

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<p>595 atm. maybe +50. still tweaking.</p>

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<p>700 + is redonckulous! i find that in my essays when i get over 650 I start to babble or add inconsequential details. if your doing 1000 words it better be worth a Pulitzer</p>

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<p>Apparently, this is the first year it has NOT said on the Common App that 500 words is the maximum. All those schools that belong to CA must have agreed to do away with the limit because it is ok to go over the 500 words.</p>

<p>Cutting down your essay definitely makes it better, though. Personally I'm 619 words and I think every sentence moves it forward. Size-12 font fits a page with room to spare.</p>

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<p>Is this for the personal essay?! Because mine is about 1,000 words. D: Admissions officers are so vague about it, too! "It can be as long as it needs to be" I was told by one guy.</p>

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<p>Mine is 700 words, but fits on a single page point size 12 font times new roman. I'm counting it as "good enough."</p>

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<p>I have two non-school-specific essays that are both just under 500 words</p>

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<p>Mine was about 1000 words but it was a story and I had shaved about 250 words off of it before I submitted it.</p>

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<p>Mine is 625 words.</p>

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<p>brevity is the soul of wit. sense; not drivel. 650 words for me.</p>

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<p>Wow mine is only 377. Is this a bad thing if I have already said what I needed to? for me, concision is key</p>

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<p>short essays require rigor.</p>