<p>I have to send some apps off by tomorrow night.
For the common app. short answer question- "elaborate on one of your activities"- I exceeded not only the word limit but also the character limit (barely though).</p>
<p>I clicked "save and next" and it seems locked in and fine. If I send it, will some not be sent? Will colleges be ****ed? etc etc... is there a problem?</p>
<p>^ no idea… you sure you can’t shorten it a few characters?</p>
<p>nvm im not just a little bit over.
i have 1800 characters. it says “You cannot exceed 1500 characters.”</p>
<p>Bump! Please some advice!</p>
<p>MS Word says i have 1480 characters now, common app still says im over. screw it</p>
<p>I highly doubt it will make or break you</p>
<p>not sure how many words youre over, but if its a lot (like 20% or more) quite frankly it will probably hurt more than it will help. i seriously doubt those extra words are so crucial that it deserves to exceed the word limit and the patience of the adcoms.</p>
<p>At the end of the application it lets you see a Print Preview. When you do that you can see if it all fit in or if some of it got cut off. You can adjust the length accordingly.</p>
<p>hmm ive found that if its not EXACTLY 150 words, it won’t even let me print preview it as it says the application is “incomplete”… </p>
<p>is this correct? should i not be allowed to go over the 150 word limit AT ALL?</p>