<p>They say, "briefly," but I am not sure if I am expected to write three paragraphs or several sentences.</p>
<p>I'm currently in the process of cutting mine down from two and a half pages to one and a half. </p>
<p>I'd suggest to sticking to 300-500 words. Enough to say what you want, but not a tome, either.</p>
<p>I think all essays should be within reasonable length of around 600-700 words so I kept mine to a single page (630 words).</p>
<p>:S </p>
<p>I didn't write much, I went with the character limit. If I'm not mistaken I wrote about 300 words. Is this a problem?</p>
<p>Anyway, there's not much I can do now, I already submitted the supplement.</p>
<p>anything between one paragraph and one page is fine.</p>
<p>Thanks. I'll work at cutting mine (currently two and a half pages long, tipping the scales at 998 words) down to size after I get Harvard and Princeton out of the way.</p>
<p>mine was a full page.</p>
<p>Perhaps I went a bit overboard with mine. Mine was 942 words and it was a page and three quarters (single spaced, that is). I still got in, but that length is probably the absolute maximum, haha.</p>
<p>What? I thought it should be just statements, so i wrote only 4 statements</p>
<p>I really wouldn't worry about it...as long as you write whatever feels right to you. One of my friends/hallmates drew her Why Swarthmore instead of writing it, so there's no one format or length requirement. Over two pages is probably two much (single spaced), but under that, just write (or draw, haha) what you feel explains why you should be at Swat, that's all.</p>