Is it alright if my Brown PS is under 3500 characters but over 600 words?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>The limit is supposed to be 500 words or 3500 characters, but the character limit produces a much higher word count. So is it ok if my essay is under the character limit but extraordinarily higher than the word count?</p>

<p>Just wondering if it will **** off the adcoms or whatever…Thanks.</p>

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<p>If it's under 3500 characters, then your words are, on average, 4-5 characters long—meaning that your writing is probably much easier to read than most, and thus the extra few words shouldn't be a problem at all.</p>

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<p>Thank you, can anyone else confirm?</p>

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<p>Yeah, should be fine.</p>

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<p>Great, one last detail. Small detail but important nonetheless.</p>

<p>My essay comes out to be 636 words, 2,979 characters w/o spaces. WITH spaces it comes out to be over 3,600 characters.</p>

<p>Do they consider the character count with spaces or without?</p>

<p>Trivial, I know, but it could make a difference.</p>

<p>[EDIT]Fack, nvm, it does make a difference. Back to the chopping board...</p>

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<p>Yes, spaces count as characters, though I'm pretty sure you already realized that...</p>