<p>same ones youre doing, gianievve</p>
<p>500 what would i do for a year
250 greatest achievement
250 open topic</p>
<p>Does anyone else find it impossible to write so little for each topic?</p>
<p>Mine are all over the word limit by at least 100 words.</p>
<p>Tell us about yourself-- 500
Topic of your design (used it to talk about writing)-- 250
Ideal year-- 250
Optional (used it to talk about visual art) -- 500</p>
<p>However, for another college app, I started the "influential person topic," and I'm loving my essay so far. If I finish it by Saturday, I'll probably throw out my ideal year essay and use this new one instead.</p>
<p>100 words, pfffft thats not a problem, im talking about like 900 words for the 500 word essay, and i have yet to start my 250s</p>
<p>wow that's a lot. I started with like 1000 words, but I cut it down to 680 or so. My 250 word ones hover around 380.</p>
<p>Yeah, my 250s ended up being 315-360, but my 500 was at 504 or so. While most people in my class struggle with writing enough to make the word limit, I always struggle with editing my down. It's like tearing the limbs off my newborn child :(</p>
<p>I just did a word count</p>
<p>500 word essay is : 498 (score!)
250 word essay is: 272 (damn)
250 word essay is: 298 (damn)
Optional essay is: 737 (meh)
Summer essay is: 260 (meh)</p>
<p>I don't think you guys are taking the word limits seriously enough. They are there for a reason. Conciseness is a virtue.</p>
<p>wow - i thought going over the word limit by 30 words was a stretch...guess not - they do say <em>about</em> X words :) What is the maximum you would stretch the limit? (we won't ask Tobsta this one, kay ;))</p>
<p>"It's like tearing the limbs off my newborn child "</p>
<p>Aww that is so cute.</p>
<p>lol my summer essay is about maybe 50 words. i typed it on the app and i fit it into the space.</p>
<p>really because online it says about 250 words...</p>
<p>im not submitting it online and in the app i asked the ad com and they recommended it to fit in the space. if u look at the space it can barely fit maybe 100 words max</p>
<p>Yea that's really weird that it's different!</p>
<p>I did about 220 words for the summer essay because I thought we were supposed to go by the online directions for that. Whoops.</p>
<p>Mine is probably around 300 words or more...I made it into an essay.</p>
<p>oh well i dont think it matters. i left mine dry. i think they just wanted it to answer their questions but whatever lol i dont think they will care too much. they have that question every year and my brother answered it very dry and got in so oh well! :-D</p>
<p>Do we have to write the topic of our essay on top?</p>
<p>No. I didn't. I actually had some, but my counselor told me to take them off because they were more "personal statements" than papers.</p>