<p>So on two of my UPenn essays I thought it said 1000 words or less instead of 1000 characters or less. So now I have 2 long essays with nowhere to send them. Just wondering....since one of the essays was about which professor you would like to research with (at upenn) its 1000 words...should I go ahead and send the professor I picked my essay. And attach a note saying I wrote a long paper instead of a few sentences and didn't want it to go to waste!?<br>
Or no......I'm just so mad since I spent a long time researching everything and writing this paper. </p>
<p>ALSO, I did the same thing for the What do you like to do for fun question.....except its shorter (750 words).
Should I send that one along to the admissions office?</p>
<p>hahaha, but no you should not send it to that professor? whats the point? he/she has no influence on admission counselors and if you dont get in then that professor will be like ***?!</p>
<p>Well, now, wait a minute. Do you already have some kind of contact with this professor? If so, I can't see any harm in sending the essay to him with a letter. I wouldn't assume that he can't or won't make a phone call to admissions if he likes you. If he has no idea who you are, though, I doubt if it would help unless there is something really unique about you (i.e., you've already done research that dovetails with his.) I can't see any purpose in sending in the extra-long essay on what you do for fun.</p>
<p>This thread is kind of funny..but so true...There were some supplements my d filled out that had two or more essays; even from the same school, some had a character limit, others had a word limit..It was mind boggling...There was a point at which we thought it was a test to see if the student follows directions!!</p>
<p>it's really not to hard to cut it down..just think about it like this..go over every sentence and ask, do i really need to mention this to an exhausted admissions officer?</p>
<p>It happened to me too. I thought it said 500 words, not 500 characters and was freaking out about how many essays there were, but good thing I noticed my mistake before I started all those essays. If you want to send the essay directly to the professor...I don't know. If you know him well or have had contact with him, then sure. But if you want to submit the essays for your application, then no. Don't do it. If they asked for 1,000 characters, give them what they want. It's better to be under than over. Not following directions is basically telling them you didn't take into consideration what they asked for and did your own thing. It'll look bad.</p>
<p>Just say that you know he isn't part of the admission process, but you hate to see such efforts go to waste...he will either love it or ignore it, that's worst case</p>
<p>Here's something I got off the Yale website:</p>
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My essays are more than 500 words each. Is that OK?
We ask that you respect the word limits we suggest. Will we read the words beyond 500? Yes. But if your essays are much longer than 500 words, understand that you will not help yourself by seeming to have ignored our request.
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<p>Stick with the character limit and don't do anything extra because it's just more work for the admissions people and they won't like you for it. If you don't have a relationship with this professor, don't send him anything. Like it was said before, he doesn't do anything with admissions and he won't like being annoyed by someone that's not even a student.</p>
<p>"Wow! I'd always thought that the Big city public school counselors would make more than private school counselors because of the tax base......boy was I wrong!"</p>
<p>You need to take economics, yo.</p>
<p>Bigger tax base, but lower marginal revenue + higher marginal cost + greater population to serve.</p>
<p>Hence, lower average salaries for education employees.</p>
<p>Haha, I just realised I posted in the wrong thread (I meant to post in another thread by the same author). This is what happens when you have 83 tabs out in one window.</p>
<p>i did the same thing when i was trying to apply to a local research program and after my friend who is already in that Uni told me about how they didnt like it (not mine in specific, but ppl who sent in superfluous stuff like essays LOL)</p>