Two Lines or Four Lines?

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<p>For the profile question section (name your favorite books, authors, movies, favorite newspaper, etc) the Common App directions say:</p>

<p>Please respond to the following questions so we can get to know you better. Respond in four lines or less, and do not feel compelled to answer using complete sentences.</p>

<p>Yet on the Print Preview with the Stanford Supplement (if you click on print preview) it says...
Please respond to the following questions so we can get to know you better. Respond in two lines or less, and do not feel compelled to answer using complete sentences.</p>

<p>So does anyone know which one they want?</p>

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<p>I don’t mean to hijack this, but when they say lines do they mean sentences or literally lines in the box we type in?</p>

<p>I would go with four I think though. If sentences, you can always be cheap and utilize semi-colons do to it; it may just have been two last year and they never properly updated it, as I think supposedly some of their essays were minimum 250 words instead of maximum last year.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure they mean lines, not sentences.</p>

<p>As far as how many lines, I’d like an answer to this question as well.</p>

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<p>Ah, hitting print preview I see that the lines in the box are different from the lines on the print preview, and much more reasonable, heheh.</p>

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<p>Maybe 4 lines in the box = 2 lines in the print preview? Thus the different standards for both are really the same.</p>

<p>I haven’t copied and pasted my answers into the supplement yet, so I’m not sure how it works. Could anyone answer this?</p>

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<p>4 lines in the box does seem to be 2 lines in the print preview, which is probably the number stated is different.</p>