“Use your own words and limit your response to the space provided.”
~500 words? ~25 lines?
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Also: how informal or formal (~standard) should the essay be? Should I get to the point and just write about it? Or should I be more creative with it (which would accurately reflect my character)?
The limit is 600 words! It’s not written explicitly anywhere, but when I tried to submit my essay it highlighted the last few paragraphs in red and I figured it out via trial and error 