UC APP Essay Max & Min words ?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Your personal statement consists of responses to two required prompts and one optional prompt. Respond to both required questions, using a maximum of 1,000 words total. You may allocate the word count as you wish, but we suggest each of your answers be no less than 250 words.</p>

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<p>above is what the UC APP says.</p>

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<li>first of all is that mean i can write two essays with 250 words each ?
that, the total words will be only 500 words..</li>
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<p>okay and actually My first essay has about 260 words
and second essay has about 670~680 words</p>

<p>that add up to around 930~940</p>

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<li>.Should i add some more words to fit into 1000 words for the best chance?
or this won't matter at all ?</li>
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<p>I’m in your situation too. I have a total of 959 words. But I don’t know what else to write :(</p>

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<p>They won’t penalize you for being a few words away from the max. </p>

<p>IMO 25/75 mix between the two essays isn’t very good. I’d shoot for 60/40. The 1st one about your major and how it developed is more important than the 2nd one about a personal accomplishment for a transfer student. Then again what UCs are you applying to? Only UCB, UCI, UCLA and UCM read essays, with the latter 3 focusing more-so on grades.</p>

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<p>I actually think they’re both equally important.</p>

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<p>To :bomerr !</p>

<p>how do you know that Only UCB, UCI, UCLA and UCM read essays???</p>

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<p><a href=“University of California Counselors”>University of California Counselors;

<p>Page 8 and 9.</p>

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<p>Although UCB, UCI UCLA, and UCM technically take the personal statement into consideration, it’s been my observation that the personal statement is a critical factor only in the admissions process of UC Berkeley, as bomerr implied earlier. All the other UCs focus on grades, major GPA, and completion of prerequisites.</p>

<p>I’m not saying that you shouldn’t give a damn about the personal statement if you’re not applying there, but yeah. You shouldn’t worry all that much if you’re not applying to Berkeley.</p>

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<p>thank you !</p>

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<p>No problem. Good luck with the application. We will all need it, lol</p>