<p>is 1030 words ok for two prompts together?</p>
<p>My final word count for both two prompts combined is 1020, is that ok? Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>You should be good.</p>
<p>It’s okay; however, I heard they really like it when papers are within the 990-1000 range.</p>
<p>The two combined, you mean?</p>
<p>I’m at 956 for my #2, putting me at a little over 1200 words. Wondering if I should continue to edit or not.</p>
<p>Just find out that in order to reduce some words from my essay, I replaced “the United states” with “America” in the prompt 2. And I accidentally spelted America wrong as “Aermica”. Jesus, can’t imagin what the admission people going to say…</p>
<p>Oh no! Did you use the “find and replace” function so that all instances of “The United States” was replaced with “Aermica”? Hahaha that would be unfortunate. I’m sure it will be okay, they probably understand that a lot of applicants do last minute adjustments. I gotta be honest to the other poster, I definitely do not think 1200 words is okay. I’ve talked to admissions officers and they said that shows you do not know how to convey yourself concisely and/or follow instructions.</p>
<p>I believe is only one “Aermica”. So do you think my 1020 words is ok?</p>
<p>Is 1100 words okay? Or 1050?</p>
<p>1020 words is definitely fine. 1050 words is probably pushing it just slightly. I’m sure you could get 1050 words down to 1020 words with very little effort. You’d be surprised at how easy it is to condense things… But when you guys start doing things like 1100 or 1200 words that’s very bad… By doing so you’re just showing the admissions officers that you can’t follow the instructions and that you are unable to accurately express yourself through language… The latter is actually one of the purposes of having a personal statement on the application.</p>
<p>Here is an old but good resource: <a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/apa/personalstatement/gettingstarted.html[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/apa/personalstatement/gettingstarted.html</a></p>
<p>Mine’s 1025, but then again, it’s not like I really know whether I’ll be accepted or not. Maybe that’s too long.</p>
<p>1025 is fine. 
Be optimistic!</p>
<p>I could have cut it down, I just didn’t think it mattered at the time, haha. Now I’m thinking it might have made a difference. Anyways, I’d definitely recommend cutting it below 1000 words so at the very least, you have peace of mind in knowing you’re not getting denied because of something so trivial.</p>
<p>Actually, it just said 1025 on my word processor. I’m reading that for most people, the UC counter counts contractions as two words for some reason, so it’s probably more like 1050. ARgggghh</p>
<p>I’m at like 1050 too, because of the UC word count.</p>
<p>I had 1040, i called to admissions office at ucb…they said it was cool…when you start getting into 1180-1100 that is TOOOO much! Also…i made a typo on mine as well. She said one typo is understandable…two (especially on the same word) is too many.</p>
<p>Do you think we can still call the UC place and get them to let us change the essay? I’d seriously like to cut down my word count, if possible.</p>
<p>When you copy/paste the personal statement into the UC application, make sure the apostrophe is straight (') and not slanted (). The slanted apostrophe counts as a single quotation mark and splits the word into two, thereby increasing your word count. Simple fix - just delete the slanted apostrophe mark and type it in again (in the UC application, it will default to the straight apostrophe mark).</p>
<p>Has anyone used Prompt 3? I uesed it to explain my 3 W grades for 280 words. Is that ok?</p>
<p>Yes, that’s fine. The limit is 500.</p>
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<li> is that pushing it? my personal statments are bomb though…</li>
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