<p>The common application says 250 words or less, but I keep seeing postings about 1800 words. Am I missing something? Isn't it 250 words for each essay.</p>
<p>No, you’re misreading it. It’s 1800 characters (which is approximately 320 words) although the promt says 250 words. The text box will cut you off at 1800 characters (including spaces)</p>
<p>To be safe, I wouldn’t go too far over 250 words. A few words won’t send your application to the reject pile, but it’s usually good to follow what they ask for.</p>
<p>Im pretty sure its 1800 characters or less, anything over and no more text comes out. So it wont be rejected, youd just be sending incomplete essays.</p>
<p>Moral of the story: Dont go over 1800 characters</p>