What if I go over limit for short essay supplement of 1000 characters? (commonapp)

Applying to College
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<p>Hi. I just started writing my supplement essays for my colleges and most of them are short paragraphs. For Barnard, they want 1000 characters, but I can't seem to narrow mine down to 1000 when they also count the spaces. W/o the spaces I'm fine, but I'm around 180-250 characters over. I'm uploading the MS word doc. onto common app but i'm wondering if that'll greatly hurt my chances of getting accepted?? I just really hate having to chop off parts of my essay b/c then I have to reword everything in order for it to give the same gist. =/</p>

<p>Anyone help? Thanks!</p>

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<p>The word limit is the greatest bane to any applicant, I tell you...</p>

<p>By the way, I doubt that they will reject you just because you exceeded the word limit, assuming that your essay is compelling and the extra words are not superfluous.</p>

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<p>One good thing to do, is to have only one space between sentences. ( i usually have 2 so this helped me)</p>