<p>...is 500 words long. i wonder if this is normal?</p>
<p>It is the quality of the essay, not it's length, that is important.</p>
<p>i'm extremely happy with the quality though; i think i've made it VERY clear why i love the school. it just happened to be the nearly the same length as the 'extended' essay. thanks!</p>
<p>I agree with the sentiment that the quality is more important than the length. However, if you want a guideline, I was told the 2 short answers should be roughly 300 words, and the extended essay should be between 1,000 and 1,500</p>
<p>Dont worry my why chicago is around 530 words and I plan to keep it at that length. If they really cared they would have specified. Its quality not quanity- or lack there of- that matters. Are the extended essays the five prompt ?s</p>
<p>lol my two short answer were both between 450 and 500.</p>
<p>and my long answer was 760, which was a page and about a third of the second page.
so 1500 would be reaaally long, i'm thinking, but maybe that's just me.</p>
<p>Don't worry, I have around 600 words for both statements 1 and 2. Around 650 for essay...</p>
<p>LOL....mine are only around 250 words. I swear they said 2 paragraphs. I do like my "short" answers though, so I think I will leave them alone.</p>
<p>The quality may actually be more important if the essay is long - extended mediocrity is worse than the concise variety.</p>
<p>Crap..
I need advice quick.
My "Why Chicago" essay is 948 words. I completely missed the few paragraphs part and I went on to explain some things (recent my father died and his illness really effected my grades over the last few years; I lived in Portugal on foreign exchange for 6 months; etc). The essay is of high quality (I talking about a very significant period of my life and how it relates to academics and my desire to attend the university). I am afraid they will hate the length though. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>I think you will be ok as long as it directly pertains to the question. I would suggest that you give it another read-through and make sure everything is to the point and you are not repeating yourself. Other than that - if its long, its long. My son's long essay was over 1300 words, and that didn't seem to bother anyone.</p>
<p>don't worry my Why Chicago has reached 750 and im keeping it. The only problem is that i now have to extend my prompt essay so it is not completley dwarfed by the "short" answer responses.</p>
<p>My long essay is about 1000 or so. As long as you're happy with it, that's all that matters. And for all you EA kids that are still working on the final touches -- good luck! Don't forget financial aid forms (like I almost did)!</p>
<p>the short answer is suppose to be 1 to 2 paragraphs...300 words paragraphs wow...</p>
<p>i added a supplementary essay which is 800 words, the long essay which is 700, and two short answers which are 600 each. :confused:</p>
<p>My short essays are each about 400, and my long one was 450.</p>
<p>I know it sounds really really short, but I think it's better than being verbose. I would have thought they get tired of reading 1500 word essays.</p>
<p>Are my essays too short?</p>
<p>My Why Chicago and the other short essay were each only about 250-300 words long, and I got in last year.</p>
<p>Make sure they're 300 carefully-chosen words, though.</p>
<p>1000 - 1500 is totally unnessecary! I definatly agree that few people here care about length...if you ever take classes here, youll get pretty annoyed with the teacher's refusal to specify paper lengths. They care about the essay itself. Please dont extend your long answer to some obscene length just because some kid somewhere couldnt put together a set of cohorent ideas without writing a novella.</p>
<p>oh, and for your short essay, 500 words is fine.</p>
<p>o lord... The 1,000 to 1,500 words was just a guideline that an admissions officer gave me. Obviously there is no official word limit, or else it would have been specified somewhere in the application. My own essay came out at about 1,200 and it was in no way a "novella"- it was roughly a page single spaced. Personally, I didn't put much thought in to word count. I just wrote what I needed to write and made sure it fit into the little window online. Just stay somewhere between 10 and 10,000, and you'll be good.</p>