<p>I don’t know how to get my point across without making it that long. Maybe it’s one page if the book were the size of an atlas.</p>
<p>1665 words. Will they lose interest?</p>
<p>It depends on what you wrote and how you wrote it. If you can keep their interests then don't worry. Have you had other people read it?</p>
<p>My parents and sister read it, but they didn't really say anything like it should be shorter. My mom liked it, my dad didn't understand it, and my sister just proofread it and didn't really say anything. I take a lot of artistic license with it, so it's nothing like my other essays. It's a journal entry that I "found."</p>
<p>i really think you should make it shorter, no matter how good it is, because they wont have enough time to read all of it anyway</p>
<p>btw, it's about one of my audition experiences. Kind of like what's "running through my head." For the sake of the point of the essay, it can't be shortened too much....a lot of stuff goes through my head. I'm tying in my element of self-doubt with a sort of realization at the end that makes me...well, not doubt myself so much.</p>
<p>Whats it about anyways?</p>
<p>I will try to make it shorter.</p>
<p>I would definintely recommend making it shorter.</p>
<p>They ask you to submit page 217, not pages 217-220.</p>
<p>Keep that in mind.</p>
<p>It is now down to two pages single spaced.</p>
<p>"Pg 217 in my 17" by 22" autobiography"</p>
<p>Well they want pg.217...</p>
<p>not pg.217, 218 and 219</p>
<p>yes, I fully realize that.</p>
<p>But as it is too late for me to start a new essay so I'm working with the one I have now. Deleting much more would ruin it. I'd rather have a decent essay that's too long than a really bad one that's one page.</p>
<p>That's true, I suppose.</p>
<p>Yeah, but it's not an essay
It's page 217 of your 300 page autobiography
:-)</p>
<p>I think they ask for 1 page for a reason</p>
<p>thinkjose1 offers the best no-******** advice when it comes to Penn's Application. I recommend reading his written word very carefully, after all he was accepted ;)</p>
<p>as everyone said, it's just pg 217. is there any way you could call it a first experience?</p>
<p>perhaps. It would be a very creative first experience, haha. I mean, all of what I wrote really did happen.</p>
<p>..not that it will help much, but you can change the font size to be one of those novels with TINY print</p>
<p>if I change the margins to .4 and make the font size 9, it's one page.</p>
<p>Quick question: Can I say that I "died," (in terms of bombing a certain part of my audition). The part is meant to be as if it came from a journal, but is that too weird?</p>
<p>"I completely folded, exploded, crashed, burned, and died at 2 PM after hours of waiting in the dumb line with my dumb solo and my dumb clarinet..."</p>
<p>Two pages is still too long, IMO. You're going to be testing their patience and attention. If a reader finds a paper thats obviously much longer than others, skimming it will be irresistable. Remember that it's a human reading your essay, not a machine.</p>
<p>if it was a first experience it would be ok 2 pages long, imo, so all you'd have to do is add a few sentences about how it was a first experience</p>