<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>I was wondering if it would look unfavorably if our short answer did not meet (or is not close to) the 2500 character limit. I know Princeton doesn't necessarily want our answer to be "essay-like" (not too much poetic/flowery language), but does that mean that it is also okay to be ~500-600 characters off the maximum?</p>
<p>totally fine. I know mine was over 500 words but way under the character limit (I later noticed after I had submitted that they wanted about 500 words :s)</p>
<p>@haleymaley: Thanks for your answer, but perhaps you misunderstood which prompt I was talking about. While there is a 500 world limit for the Personal Essay (which there was four options to), there was no word limit for the Summer Short Answer (2500 character limit which is roughly 400 words long). My summer essay was only ~1960 characters long (~330 words).</p>
<p>Mine was around 2400 characters - I wasn’t planning on writing so close to the limit, and I don’t really look at my character count when I’m writing, but mine was a bit more essay-like. I don’t think it’s expected. For example, the supplement gave you 5000 characters which is approximately two times the amount you need to write 500 words.</p>
<p>Sorry about that! Okay just for validities sake I was accepted SCEA. So it officially will not kill your chances since I had 232 words and 1,364 characters.</p>
<p>I had like 2200 char. Some people had 2000, 2499, 1500, 1800. It doesn’t really matter.</p>