<p>I wrote my essay about "Although you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (*) (100 words or fewer) ".Writing was very easy, it wrote itself but I'm working on it almost a week to drop the word count down to 100word.I hardly make it 150words and if I delete few more letter it will loose its meaning.</p>
<p>Do think it will work if I only send that part on paper and everything else online?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>One would assume that it would work, but the idea of sending one part on paper to get around word count limits is slightly odd to me. Does the online application have a strict cut off of words? I haven’t entered any of my essay/short answers yet - they’re all in a word document - but my answer to that question is like, 108 words.</p>
<p>You don’t need over 100 words to express what u want to major in!</p>
<p>@Djkovic
Yes you are right answer to "what major?"is just 2 word
but answer to “why?” was 500 words at my first writing, I give lots of effort to decrease word count I’m around 200 word and if cut few more words it looses its meaning.</p>
<p>btw:my.mit takes like 150 words(found out by old Trial and error method)</p>
<p>good to know about the cut-off, Dex. thanks :]</p>
<p>I still think it can be expressed in 100 words. And that’s what they’re looking for, so I’d keep it that short if I were you? but if you really have more stuff you wanted to say, you could always add it to Additional Information, or talk about it as part of your “dreams and aspirations” in the “describe your world” topic.</p>
<p>I’m actually thinking about your idea of writing at other parts but it fits to 3b so perfectly I don’t want to write it somewhere else:(</p>
<p>I just asked to admissions office I wonder what will be answer…</p>
<p>answer just come from admission office,
answer tells me to cut the answer short</p>
<p>Makes sense. I guess they want the directions to be followed, as could be expected.</p>
<p>but they usually imply limits aren’t strict.I guess what I’m trying to do is a overkill</p>
<p>Wait, sorry to hijack this thread but if my essay exceeds their stated limit (200-250 words) but is under the technical limit of the application, then I won’t have to cut it? Is there a purpose for the word limit on the actual form?</p>
<p>Hi, Feuxfollets. I answered your question in another thread; I would link to it, but I am technically unsavvy. Here’s the URL, though:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/794890-word-count-short-essay-responses.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/794890-word-count-short-essay-responses.html</a></p>
<p>The word limits serve as guidelines for crafting the length of your response within a reasonable amount of space. We’ve changed the application to allow you to have more avenues for showing aspects of your personality, community, and abilities.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>-McGreggor (MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>if you asking about writing 251 words and they cutting the last word answer is no they wont cut</p>