<p>I have created my account in commonapp and save Stanford as one of my target school. But when I tried to look at the essay question it says it's not available. Can anyone tell me when do questions of Stanford usually release?</p>
<p>I recall reading somewhere that the Stanford supplement and other supplements won’t be available before August 15th. </p>
<p>Despite this, Stanford’s essay prompts are listed on its admission office’s website:</p>
<p>[Essays</a> : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/freshman/essays.html]Essays”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/freshman/essays.html)</p>
<p>The website says “at least 250 words”–do you happen to know the maximum words allowed in the past?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>There is no official word limit but a limit of 2,000 characters which can allow you to have much more than 250 words easily…hope this helps:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegeappjungle.com/category/stanford-supplement-essay/[/url]”>http://www.collegeappjungle.com/category/stanford-supplement-essay/</a></p>
<p>Well, the questions have been loaded onto the common app and they now say “250 Word LIMIT”. It will let you continue if you have more than 250 words, but in all its wisdom, CA does not allow a print preview until you go into SUBMIT mode. Thus, you can’t see if there is a hard cut-off at 250 or not.</p>
<p>^It should allow you to preview before you hit submit…at the top of the page there should be a “print preview” button beside the “submit” button. </p>
<p>But it’s strange that the limit is now 250 words. In prior years, it’s definitely been 2,000 characters. Mine were about 300 words.</p>
<p>The NEW & IMPROVED common app doesn’t allow a print preview until your application is complete and you hit the submit button to the school. It’s a pain.</p>
<p>Having now done one application from start to submission, there is one more aspect of the new CA that stinks. As I mentioned before, to see a PDF(print preview) of your app, you must finish it completely and go to submit it. However, you can’t see your writing supplements in PDF/Print preview form until you have submitted your application. You then can see how your supplements would look and then you submit them separately. Ugh.</p>
<p>As per Stanford admission office’s Twitter page, the supplement became available to fill out today.</p>
<p>So the three main essays now have a MAX of 250 words?</p>
<p>^^ we don’t know that for SURE yet until more students who are applying THIS YEAR have attempted the NEW Common App with Stanford Supplemental Questions and “figured” out the new system…I know my K2 who is starting Stanford this Fall had no problems using close to 2000 characters (300 or more words) in each essay…</p>
<p>…as Student1337 has been assessing the new CA essay components…it would be nice to hear from other applicants/or parents as well…if indeed there is a “new” 250 word LIMIT or not…</p>
<p>It’s really an unknown at this point. I should be able to tell you in a few days. If you write more than 250 words in the box, it warns you in red that you need to remove X number of words to get to 250. However, it will let you hit the Continue button and go on even if you are at more than 250. As I mentioned before, the real problem is that you can’t see a print preview until the main app is submitted to Stanford. It may or may not cut off the essay. I am not at that stage yet. I have already done this with the Purdue application, so I speak from experience 
as to the steps involved.</p>
<p>I just contacted someone in admissions a few hours ago and they confirmed the new 250 word limit. Apparently the new Common App forms are very strict about this, and won’t let us submit even if we are a word over 
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<p>Here is a link to the updated site: <a href=“Page Not Found : Stanford University”>Page Not Found : Stanford University;