<p>Hello, I was looking into the past essay "prompts" for the MIT application and was just curious to know if anyone here knew what the max word count for the essays were. Thanks!</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, some were 100 words and others were 250. And the word limits really matter, like they won’t let you submit 101 words. Legit.</p>
<p>Actually, unless there is a major change this year, that is just not true. While MIT does take their processes seriously, nobody is rejected for a SLIGHT excess. Eg 104 words is fine, 540 shows an inability to follow simple instructions that would be a serious liability if you made it to MIT.</p>
<p>I may be confused, but I thought what Isaac said was correct. Thought I remember my son having trouble with doing his essays in Word (and counting the words), then when he’d go to submit them on the MIT app, it wouldn’t accept it because it would say there were too many (even though Word said 100 for example) and when he took out a word or two then it would. I know for sure this happened with some of his applications, but can’t remember for sure if it was Common App or MIT (he only applied to 4 schools).</p>
<p>The MIT application did enforce a strict word limit this past year, but this was the first year they have done so. So it wasn’t that anyone was rejected for submitting an essay that was too long, it was that the application interface did not allow an over-the-limit essay to be submitted.</p>
<p>My understanding from CC is that the stricter submission limits were necessitated by a large number of applicants in past years who disregarded the limits entirely.</p>
<p>It let you go 25 words above the limih</p>