<p>Hey, just beginning to fill out the first half of the Stanford supplement for RD. Are you sticking to two lines or following the character count?</p>
<p>I would strongly advise to stick to the 2 lines, because it explicitly says to keep it to “two lines or less” in the directions.</p>
<p>2 lines. However, the 2 lines requirement doesn’t refer to when you’re filling out the textbox, but it refers to what yu actually see when you hit preview application, so you should have more than enough room.</p>
<p>About half of mine went over, 2.25-2.5 lines (maxed out on characters). I’ll let you know how that pans out for me when we get results on the 14th of December. I can’t imagine they have something stuck so far up their ass that they would reject students solely because of that, but who knows? Of course, if I get rejected, that’s not much evidence, as over 93% of applicants are rejected. If I get admitted, however, it will be a strong piece of evidence for it not mattering (which I can’t see why it would, unless its some sort of strange obedience test).</p>
<p>So I got rejected. Very strong application, but so are many’s. And very unorthodox application which is probably the actual explanation, but anyhow, I am the n=1 sample of people breaking the two line policy and getting rejected.</p>
<p>I broke that policy. I got accepted early. So line limit not an issue.</p>
<p>I stuck to the character count and didn’t pay attention to the two line thing at all. I was accepted REA.</p>
<p>Same, I hit the character limit in almost all of them, and they were almost all about 2.25 lines and I was just accepted. So, I’d say no more than about that much and you should be fine.</p>