<p>It says 1,012 is fine. What about 1,100? LOL. Does anyone know the absolute maximum the application will take? I'm currently at 1,077 & I really don't know how I feel about condensing it...</p>
<p>the application wont let you submit it if you’re over 1000 words. thats how it’ll be from now on, so the 1012 word thing is obsolete</p>
<p>1,077 words is too much. you really should reduce it to less than 1020 words.</p>
<p>I haven’t submitted my app yet, and I don’t want to try testing out the new limit you speak of and accidentally submit it (still polishing it). Can anyone else confirm what redoplease says?</p>
<p>Nevermind, I tried it and tells me I cannot submit. Here’s the message:</p>
<p>“You have exceeded the total limit of 1,000 words for Personal Statement 1 and 2 combined. You can correct your entries now or before you submit your application. Do you want to correct your entry now?”</p>
<p>and when I go to review the entire app, it says “personal statement”: “in progress”</p>
<p>Dang, need to get rid of 7 words >__<</p>
<p>I’ll take em! I’m at 972 words and I feel like I should be between 990-1000</p>
<p>im at 999 words…b0$$</p>
<p>Moi aussi! I just condensed it to 996 = Bo$$Y 
Thanks for the information.</p>
<p>…just finished the final touches on my Personal Statements and it came out to EXACTLY 1000 words!!! Started at about 1017, which I thought would be fine going from last year’s app, and then had to whittle it down little by little!! Phew!</p>
<p>In any case just clicked the submit button a few hours back …and that’s off my head now <a href=“wipes%20forehead”>i</a>*</p>
<p>Oh…and one thing that helped me, is the use of contractions (Eg: I’m instead of I am). This is perfectly legit according to the “essay advice places” I looked into. Also hypenating words (where you can get away with it) helped</p>
<p>oooo thanks for the advice^ i had like 1019 words before i finally figured the whole word limit thing out -_______- it was really hard to delete stuff…kind of like i was cutting off a part of my arm or something hahahahahhaha…grislyyy</p>
<p>lol wow they changed it this year!! I had 1,082 and submitted without any problems last fall.</p>
<p>UCLA admissions sad they changed it because too many people were submitting way over 1000 last year.</p>
<p>^ Yup, I was told the same thing. 1000 is the absolute limit.</p>
<p>In fact, a UCLA admissions rep said that the more consise your personal statements can be the better. He went on to say that far too many people try to get right up next to the 1000 word limit (i.e. 999 or 995) just because they think that in some way this will help them. He said the opposite is normally true. When the reps see someone that can answer a prompt with more style, creativity and less words it is actually more attractive and eye-catching.</p>
<p>So if it only takes you 950 words to answer the prompts completely, good for you. Do not add words to your essay simply to get close to the 1000 word limit!</p>
<p>I agree with @TonyPreMed2013 and @SMCguy.</p>
<p>Admissions rep also see it as not following simple directions. If it states do not exceed the 1,000 maximum word limit then why would anyone do so?</p>
<p>I submitted mine with like 773 words. I’ll sell my extras for whoever wants them!</p>
<p>from what i remember, you can submit your application with up to 1100 words (any more and it literally won’t allow you). when i submitted mine last year it was well over 1000 words (around 1080 maybe). from what i understand, if you are able to submit your essays the word count doesn’t really matter. i’m pretty sure the reviewers just get a transcript of your essays and don’t look at the word count. what i’m saying is that if you go over the word count it’s not the end of the world. i got into cal, ucla, and all the other UCs i applied to.</p>
<p>goldenstate, </p>
<p>please read the posts above, it will tell you that we’ve confirmed that you have to be within 1000 words or you cannot submit.</p>
<p>oh, my bad. just trying to help out.</p>
<p>condense it as much as possible without comprising what you want to say. I suggest referring to The Elements of Style to help cut out words. [Amazon.com:</a> The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition (9780205309023): William Strunk Jr., E. B. White, Roger Angell: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X)</p>