<p>The common application asks for an essay of 500 words with a 6,000 character limit, but my essay is nearly 1,000 words totaling about 5,500 characters. It's a page and a half single spaced. </p>
<p>my question is, will my super long essay hurt my chances of admission? </p>
<p>Also, will anyone be willing to critique it?</p>
<p>I'll critique it, if you want me to. PM it to me. Also, it depends on how interesting your essay is, if it's boring, then the length will definitely be noticed.</p>
<p>i'm going with a long essay. if it's good enough, long doesn't hurt. plus for most common app schools you only have one proper essay to make an impact. the box allows 6000 characters.</p>
<p>I'm in the same situation. But the way I see it, they give you a character limit that is way over the word limit. They must sorta expect you to go over.</p>
<p>Ill read it if you pm it to me</p>
<p>ill give you my two cents if you pm me</p>
<p>the character limit includes spaces. dunno if that changes ur mind.</p>