<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I've read on many websites (this one included) that MIT accepts essays that are a bit over the word count. My essays were about 280 words each, cut down from 300ish. I tried to submit it, but it wouldn't save, saying it's too long. Now, I've cut them down to 240 each and it STILL says it's too long. I've already cut down as much as I can. What can I do??</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
JP8000
October 22, 2011, 5:21pm
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<p>If you typed your essays on Microsoft word, this may help you.
I have a tip for a few people out there. I’m on a Windows 7 computer with Office 2010 using Google Chrome to access the application.</p>
<p>When writing an essay in Microsoft Word, the word count will give you a different value than the word count the MIT application does. If you go to Word Count Tool - Free Tool to Count Number of Words. Word counter! and paste in a paragraph from Microsoft Word, you’ll notice an increased number of words than what MS Word tells you.</p>
<p>The increased number comes from the use of contractions. For example in Microsoft Word, the word “its” is one word. If you manually type in “it’s” into the wordcounttool or the MIT app, it will also be one word. HOWEVEr, if you copy and paste from Word 2010, it will count as two words.</p>
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