Need Help Fast!!

College Essays
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<p>Hey everyone, I plan on submitting my application tonight and I have one question. On the commonapp short answer where you elaborate on one of your EC, I wrote an essay which is 415 words. Now it says 150 words or fewer, yet it provides 3500 characters. My question is that I still have room for 1500 characters left even though my essay is over by 250 words. Is this acceptable?</p>

<p>The way i look at it is that they wouldn't have provided that many characters if they didnt accept longer essays.</p>

<p>Thanks alot guys.</p>

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<p>Keep it 200 or less.</p>

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<p>I would disregard the character limit.</p>

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<p>Why though? LIke why wouldn'y they just provide less characters?</p>

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<p>Why are you asking CC for advice and then arguing? It has been on many previous threads that short answer should be 150 words....Yes, I know there are more characters, but if you want to follow directions 150 it is....there are more characters, i'm assuming, so that if one uses words with more letters, they will fit and ,yes, you will have character spaces left after you submit......</p>

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<p>^ Jeez, it's only a request for explanation. But rodney's right... it's just an insurance factor, to make sure that you have enough characters to make 150 words.</p>

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<p>Keep it at 150 words.</p>

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<p>THanks for the help guys.
I cut it down to 248. Is this still too much?</p>

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<p>I have exactly 150 words. The admission officers will probably think I'm a genius, right?
Not many people can do this :)</p>

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<p>Hah, mine's 150 exactly too. =)</p>

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<p>I just edited mine. Unfortunately, I had to add one more word.
Now it's 151.
Would the admission officers not consider me as a genius anymore? :(</p>

<p>Esm402, I think 248 is still way too much. It's about 65.3 % more than what it should actually be.</p>

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<p>ONE EXTRA WORD, HARVARD44?!?! Can't you make a conjunction somewhere or something? =(</p>