<p>I have just finished one of my early action school's supplements and wanted to apply, but on the common app section my personal essay will not be checked off. You those little green check marks? I keep putting my personal statement in the box, then saving the whole writing section, but the green check mark still won't apply on the top box with the essay. I just want to apply already but the counselors at my school keep saying they can't help me because they don't know what the common app is, so I hope someone out there can. I'm so stressed out; I am going KARAWACK. Also, if your school uses naviance could you tell me how the counselor is supposed to upload all the transcripts and stuff through so that I can tell them? Thanks. </p>
<p>someone please respond I’m begging you lol </p>
<p>Can’t tell you anything about uploading documents to Naviance since that’s really something your counsellor should no or at least be able to look up on his or her own.</p>
<p>For the essay… did you click which prompt you were responding to? How many words does the CA say your essay is?</p>
<p>Yeah… they should know how to do that… I definitely agree on that one!!! And yes, I clicked which essay and it is exactly 650 words. 
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<p>Does the Common App say it’s 650 words? Because Word, for example, and CA count differently. Did you triple check? If you’re just one word off, it won’t let you submit. </p>
<p>What I found last year, the way CA counting words is different from the word processor. Try shorten it and paste it again. You can revise it as many times as your want before each application submission unless you have already unlocked it twice.</p>
<p>It said 650 at the bottom of the box you paste it into in the common app when I submitted this question, but I shortened just a couple of words and now it says 648… still won’t submit.</p>
<p>plus, the red text at the top telling me to remove words didn’t show up :-/</p>
<p>Try like 400-500 words (obviously save your essay elsewhere). Weird things happen with word count when copying and pasting from Word - try something in the middle of the two limits and let us know if you still have the problem.</p>
<p>If so, just contact CA help and explain your situation. I had a similar problem on a section last year (though, that was just a “check these boxes” type question, but…), and even though they never replied to me, I went back a day later or so and the problem had stopped.</p>
<p>Okay thanks! I talked to them and they fixed it!:-)</p>