<p>I just wrote my essay, and at the bottom of the document I have defined a few non-English terms that I used in my essay. Without the definitions, my essay is 290 words. However, with the definitions the essay is 330 words. </p>
<p>Will this be seen as going "above the limit", or will it be fine?</p>
<p>I think it will be fine. Thirty words over is pretty forgivable.</p>
<p>omgosh. mine is 550words. </p>
<p>but i thought that i couldn’t reduce the word count any further or else i ll lose the essence of my essay. will it be a dead arrow for me if i have 550words?</p>
<p>well as someone in the other thread on this essay put it very well “there better be a really good reason for those words”</p>
<p>they were talking about if you went over 350 words
so in your case there better be a REALLY good reason haha 
idk maybe consider rewriting?</p>
<p>330 is completely fine.</p>
<p>550, on the other hand, is simply too long. That’s almost twice the stated “limit” (which is a bit flexible, mind you).</p>
<p>So something like 307 words is okay? That’s mine…and I already sent it. That’s too bad; I trimmed a few parts to make it shorter. I hope it doesn’t suck now. I thought a shorter word limit would be easier to write, but it actually made it harder! I don’t think my essay is good enough :(</p>