<p>Man keep your spirits up. Mine was nearing 1000 words and still fitted in one PDF page. But then (unpleasant revelation) I'm not getting in hahahah.</p>
<p>yeah, i was just joking. but, yeah, i do want to read it. do u want to PM it to me?</p>
<p>Very often, essays that exceed the word limit contain many unneeded info. Thats at least what some Harvard students said when they corrected mine, and they cut it down from 800 to 600 words, not seriously altering its content.</p>
<p>@miaoling
So if you want to PM it to me, I'll have a look at it as well.</p>
<p>JD
if you feel that your essay is good and can do without editing. dont edit it just coz of the word limit.
the word limit is important but not that important
:)</p>
<p>Hi blademaster, thanks for your offer:) That essay was submitted already, but if you really have time, let's say you go over it and it'll be recycled;) THXXX!!!</p>
<p>i've heard as a rule of thumb not to go more than 10% over the word limit</p>
<p>I have an essay about Y2K =)</p>
<p>my teacher told me that as long as the essay fits single spaced, size 12 or so on a single page, its fine. no one is counting the words. as long as you have cut out unnecessary info to write a compelling, effective essay, i doubt that some extra words will really matter.</p>
<p>If you go over the word limit, they'll track you down and do a drive-by shooting at your house. :-P</p>
<p>My essay was 3555 words! :( I am out!</p>
<p>Just kidding it was like 800 words each :)</p>
<p>Why does everyone go over 500? I thought there was a word limit for a reason. I would understand if a few people went over when it was necessary, but by the looks of this thread, almost everyone is exceeding by 100s of words or more...</p>
<p>Mine was 500 words, i think. I didn't go over the limit.</p>
<p>some of us went over, some of us did not, all in all it is not that big of a deal...</p>
<p>why do threads like this keep getting updated?!!</p>
<p>Yeah, my common one was about 900 and my supplemental one was about 1000. It fit well enough when I print previewed it, so I hope the admission officers are cool with it too. It's sort of hard to cut down when you talk about events of pretty great magnitude and how they affected you.</p>
<p>Mine is about 450</p>
<p>wow i spent so much time and effort getting it down to 500 or less
but i think my essay is better for it</p>