Stanford Essays Word Limits

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<p>Does Anyone know the online word and character limits for the stanford essay questions? I've looked and I can't seem to find them anywhere...</p>

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<p>From what I remember it's 1500, 1500, and 1400 characters, respectively, for the short essays, can't remember what the limit is for the long one.</p>

<p>-Ender</p>

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<p>1400 - short answers
5100 - long essay</p>

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<p>thanks hello and ender</p>

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<p>But aren't the first two short essays 1500 characters?</p>

<p>-Ender</p>

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<p>yes. it's 1500, 1500, 1400 for shorts and 5100 for long.</p>

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<p>On the paper app... whatever fits :)</p>

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<p>Actually, if you apply online, and create a pdf for your question 11, there's no <em>enforced</em> word limit (how can there be? lol)--but do try not to exceed 5100 characters</p>

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<p>I have a question. Do spaces count as a character, or not?
I have 1454 characters without spaces and 1797 with them.</p>

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<p>yeah, they do count as characters.</p>

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<p>Do they??? Copy and paste your stuff so far into the blurb they provide you and click 'Character count.' You should also do this because I remember my character count on word was different than Stanford's.</p>

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<p>where do I check it? I am applying using paper application</p>

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<p>You'd have to use the online app. Otherwise see if you can fit it into the space without making it outrageously tiny.</p>

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<p>Actually yes you can fit it on the paper one. Just increase the margins and make it like 10 pt font.</p>

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<p>Spaces count. And when Microsoft Word says "1397 characters with spaces," you'll still have to cut down on characters because the app will count more.</p>

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<p>Why does Word/the app do that? Word gave me a count of 1500 characters, but it was really 1510 for the application. Does the app count extra characters I'm not aware of?</p>

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<p>Mine was always 2 characters above Word's count. I never figured out what the discrepancy was.</p>

<p>-Ender</p>

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<p>LOL I remember fretting about the word count for one of my essays. After totally stripping the poor thing I was like 5 characters over. I think I ended up taking out a comma or something...and then got frustrated and just wrote the whole thing over...</p>

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<p>I think applyyourself counts tabs, carriage returns, and other spaces differently than word does...I use appleworks, and its character count stayed fairly true to applyyourself's...</p>