“We received a record 9,275 essays — or, put another way, nearly four million words — from students around the world this year in response to our fifth annual Editorial Contest, so choosing the 10 winners, 26 runners-up and 38 honorable mentions you can find below was no small task.” …
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/learning/winners-fifth-annual-student-editorial-contest.html