<p>Who long should they be?</p>
<p>For instance I was filling out the Common App for Northwestern and it asked me about the qualities of Northwestern that wanted me to go there. Should this be essay length (i.e. a well though out page or two pages of information) or just a brief (one or two paragraphs) reasoning?</p>
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<p>well im doing the specific app fo the college and is recommends 500 for the main</p>
<p>No, it shouldn’t be as long as the main essay. You can be creative about it; look at this one:
[Apply</a> Yourself, Fall 2005, Northwestern Magazine](<a href=“http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/fall2005/features/coverstory/sidebar7.htm]Apply”>Apply Yourself, Fall 2005, Northwestern Magazine)</p>
<p>Don’t feel you have to top this one. It was probably the best response they received that year. The point is to show that you don’t have to actually answer the question, at least not in a typical way (I like Northwestern because or Northwestern has this and that…etc).</p>