<p>Fang Jr has gotten around to working on his Carleton supplement and notices that the short answers are very short indeed (200-500 <em>characters</em> each). Is this right? Are we missing something?</p>
<p>that's right. they let you attach documents if you want to make them longer, though.</p>
<p>How do you attach the documents? Did you successful ED applicants attach documents or just use the space provided?</p>
<p>at the bottom of the page there is a button that says "Upload Documents." :)</p>
<p>I attached a document for two of the questions (why Carleton and favorite books). The why Carleton one was obviously over the text box limit (something like 300 words/1800 characters) while the favorite books one was around 900 characters. For the other three prompts, I rewrote like crazy to get everything in under the character limit. There's not much room to be fancy.</p>
<p>D's answers were within the form limit. It takes a few tries to get some meaning into a couple of sentences, but there's no need to be lengthy.</p>
<p>D ended up with about 3000 characters for the "Why Carleton" so she uploaded. I don't think it's either good or bad to go over the limit, it just depends on what you're saying and how. Just rambling wouldn't be good, but the adcomm want to get to know you, so if a few longer answers help express "you" then that's a good thing.</p>
<p>my "why carleton" is like a freaking novel!</p>
<p>okay, so i may be exaggerating a leetle tiny bit. :) but yeah, i just uploaded all of them. "why carleton" was definitely the wordiest by far.</p>