<p>what should i do... help plz seriously</p>
<p>Go through it and ask yourself if everything you talk about is absolutely relevant and necessary to the topic at hand, or whether you've gone off on a tangent thought. Is there something you spend an entire paragraph discussing, when it could be effectively summed up in a sentence or two?</p>
<p>Ultimately, if you can't get it cut down before the deadline, just send it in. Yeah, schools might be a little annoyed, but they won't reject you for it. It'll probably have little bearing at all on your decision. As long as the essay is good.</p>
<p>I used my UChicago essay for the Common App. Mine was exactly 964 words too, actually. Creepy. I managed to cut it down, though, to 725. But I also ended up rewriting most of the essay anyway in the process, when I discovered that, when I took out the parts about what the picture wanted (prompt 1 from UChicago), the essay really lost anything holding it all together.</p>
<p>But yeah. Good luck! Cut it down if you can, but an hour is, I think, way too short to do something like this reliably. If you're happy with your 964 word essay, submit it. You probably shouldn't have gotten yourself into this situation, but you're here now, and I think that would be the best course of action.</p>
<p>wow i thought i was bad...</p>
<p>was it due yesterday?</p>
<p>if the deadline is still sometime in the future...i suggest trying to cut it down. ask someone else to read it and point out any pointless info...</p>
<p>good luck</p>
<p>i hope that's one good essay.</p>
<p>If you are using the common application, it will be truncated down and you will lose text. Part of the reason for having word limits are to test your ability to to write cogently and concisely (a skill you will definitely need in college because you will run across professors who will downgrade or not accept your paper for not keeping within their guidelines regarding the length of a paper).</p>