Is 1150 words (8850 characters) too long for a college essay?

It’s 5 pages long with double spacing and Times New Roman font. It fits into the word and character limits of all the colleges I am applying too but I am worried it’s too long, thoughts?

What schools are you applying to that allow essays that long? Most of the ones I’ve applied to have had limits such as 300 words or 1500 characters.