<p>Hey guys, what's the maximum word limit for the common application essay? It says, 'Please write an essay (250 words minimum) on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below.' Is 1,000 words just too long?</p>
<p>1000 is a little too long. Cut it down to 750 max. 
If I can do it, anyone can, lol.</p>
<p>I quibble–I think that 800 is a good ABSOLUTE max, for all essays ever. Most essays don’t need to be more than 750, if that. (Mine was 790, and I was covering a series of three important and distinct events, so I could have started cutting events, moved into telling not showing, or left it at 790. So I left it.) 1000 is definitely too much though.</p>
<p>Dang mine’s too long</p>
<p>So there isn’t any real “maximum”… We should just keep our essays long enough to get the point across without sacrificing the interest of the reader right?</p>
<p>mine is 2,000:(</p>