<p>How strict are they about the 200-250 word length? Would something a little bit over, say around 270, be okay?</p>
<p>I will preview the answer I’m 99% sure you’re going to get from a more legitimate source - and say that about 10-20% over the limit is fine.
Personally, most of mine are like 280, so… :P</p>
<p>Ha that’s good, I expect mine to be right around that length. 250 words is not much room.</p>
<p>My counselor said try to get it within the word limit so mine are all 250 words or less.
But one of my 100 word ones was like 104 words.</p>
<p>All of mine were well within the limits: 90’s and 230’s.
Is that bad? :)</p>
<p>according to the website? (I think)…it was somewhere, 90=100=110 & 240=250=260 so 10+/- is a good rule of thumb. Don’t sweat if one of yours is too long. just make another one shorter hahaha</p>
<p>most of mine were 240-260.</p>
<p>one of mine was around 290-310.</p>
<p>remember, more text = smaller font XD</p>
<p>Yea I had one that was 320 words, couldn’t really cut it down without compromising the integrity of the essay… =( others were 250-270.</p>
<p>I think 300 is a bit over but then again I’m not an admissions officer so I couldn’t tell you for sure.
Most of mine (before editing) were 500 and then I edited it down to about 300 and I thought I wouldn’t be able to get rid of anymore words but if you are able to effectively use language any essay can be cut down while still keeping the essence and integrity.</p>
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No. Brevity is a great skill to have.</p>
<p>Within 10% is fine. More than 10% over the limit should cause you to do some editing.</p>