<p>It says that it should be no more than two paragraphs, but can it be two really long paragraphs, so that it fills up a whole page?</p>
<p>How long was yours?</p>
<p>Mine was about 400 words.</p>
<p>I would say, given x is your word count:
200<x<600</p>
<p>Mine’s 479 words as of right now. </p>
<p>(Submitting EA tomorrow).</p>
<p>neogop mathy mind…lol no offense tho
Good luck!</p>
<p>Mine is 540 words…more on the higher boundary of the range…</p>
<p>I don’t want to scare people off, but the admissions officer who visited said something along the lines of a page single spaced? To me it seems a little much, after all I wrote around 500 for U of M. But of course, quality over quantity always.</p>
<p>Hey, kids! I don’t want to increase your anxiety, either. But sometimes in life you don’t get 500 words to make a simple argument. Ronald Reagan, famously, wouldn’t read any decision memo longer than one page (and that included the boxes he had to check and his sign-off line). If people could explain to the President of the United States why to invade Grenada or launch Star Wars in less than a page, surely you can explain why you want to go to Chicago in a page or less (~250 words).</p>
<p>Chicago doesn’t impose word limits, and I think that’s the right thing to do. But on your end editing is also the right thing to do.</p>
<p>Thank you JHS andjcbaby852 !I need to edit it now…though it fits in one page Being Concise should be better，or AO might get bored.</p>
<p>Mine is 580 words with the chance of cutting down to about 560 after revision. Do you think a poem would suffice for the why chicago portion? Mine is as such and I’m not sure if it would be ok.</p>
<p>I heard Shoshana Krieger (one of the admissions reps) say that she’d rather not read much more than half a page.</p>
<p>My essay consisted of two decent sized single-spaced paragraphs (about half a page) and I felt that was perfect.</p>
<p>Mine stands at 231 words. It says what it needs to and I feel that it is sufficient.</p>
<p>I didn’t figure out the exact word count, but mine is about half a page, so probably 350.</p>