what is the absolute longest a college essay should be?

trying to get all my stuff together, realized that an essay i wrote a while ago and was thinking of sending is like 3 pages long. edited it down to 1800, but that’s still absolutely ridiculous, right? for like the common app essay, topic of my choice. how about another thats like 1000? I know the “general guideline” is a page or 500 words, but where’s the real cutoff of reasonability? 800? 927? anybody

<p>It should fit on one page (font size 10 minimum).</p>