<p>please help me edit. Do you think it's okay if my essay was like 540 words instead of the 500 word limit?</p>
<p>I’ll help you out, but I won’t read it until tomorrow probably.
540 should be fine, but if 500 max is worrying you and you really can’t cut it down any more, you can always take a screenshot of the document, paste & crop so it looks identical to the original, and convert it to a pdf so they can’t word-count you. I didn’t do this because I met req. of the limit for my admissions essays, but I have done it for scholarship apps. xD</p>