<p>I have a faint memory of reading somewhere that it was a 1000 character limit, but now looking on the common app supplement, I see no indication of a character or word limit? Does anyone know what the appropriate length of the Northwestern Statement is?</p>
<p>Thank you for any help!</p>
<p>I think for most people, it was around 400-600 words, but you could write from 250-750 words if you wanted. I’m pretty sure there was no specifications on the writing prompt about the word or character count, so don’t worry.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>What about the optional research supplement? I worked in a lab over the summer and I plan to write an abstract about my research. Is there a word limit and should I include a layman’s explanation as well? Also, I wonder who reads the research supplement, the standard adcom or a someone with expertise in the field.</p>
<p>Since I didn’t write a research paper, I wrote a summary instead of an abstract of my research. If you wrote an abstract, then use that. If not, then just summarize. The summary/abstract shouldn’t be more than 250 words in my opinion.</p>