Too long of a research abstract detrimental to my application?

Applying to College
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<p>My research abstract I submitted to colleges is one and a half pages long single spaced which I realize is quite long for an abstract. The only reason I made it this long was because I was writing the abstract for Columbia University who said they accept 1-2 page long abstracts. </p>

<p>I'm guessing I'm Ok for Columbia since that's what they said, but for other schools I ended up sending the same abstract. My mentor who looked over it said it's fine that some abstracts are long. The admissions officers, I'm scared, might consider it too long and that might hurt me in the admissions process.</p>

<p>What do you guys think?</p>

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<p>I think it is too late to worry now, what’s done is done.</p>

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<p>I can’t help but think about it. Will the admission officer just stop reading after it gets too long and move along or will he be annoyed?</p>

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<p>If they get bored, they might stop reading. But it certainly won’t hurt your application (well I highly doubt it will). Most high school students aren’t expected to know how to write an actual abstract I think anyways - but yes, they should be very short… maybe 250 words at the very most.</p>

<p>Anyways, don’t worry about it. If you’re rejected it certainly won’t be because of a lengthy abstract.</p>

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<p>Ok, I just need to hear some words of condolence… my abstract was initially around that length but I took into account that admission officers were going to read it, not other researchers. So I ended up explaining terms like neurofeedback and EEG which made it much longer.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>