<p>common app personal statement has word limit (250-500 words) but my essay is 726 words / 4358 characters (with space) !@#!@ </p>
<p>some people say it is fine as long as the essay is under 6000 characters but I really really want to make sure if this is the case... I'm sure many people share my problem with word limit..!@#!@ </p>
<p>PLEASE HELP!!@!#</p>
<p>edit, edit, edit</p>
<p>yes, edit, edit and edit :)</p>
<p>Do a careful, ruthless editing for one hour or so, and if you're still left with a lot of words over the word limit that probably means the extra words are essential to your essay and should remain.</p>
<p>It took me 2 hrs to edit my 800 word essay into 300 words.
It was painful and I dont really like my 300 word essay (actually, i hate it - I might write another) but oh well it's life.</p>
<p>in my case it's usually the opposite, i feel that my essay reads much better after editing.</p>
<p>but trust me i never did an 800 to 300 editing, must be a world record or something lol!</p>
<p>still editing can bring surprising results. for example, i wrote this essay of about 700 words which had 6 paragraphs; then when editing, i found that i could remove my 3rd and 4th paragraphs (both were around a 100 words each), not edit the rest of the essay at all and it still made perfect sense. talk about ockham's razor!</p>
<p>Admission counselor from Trinity told us that he personally will read max 2 page essay. He won’t even look at 3 page essay. And the essay which is 726 words is one page and eight or nine lines (if I calculated correctly) so they will read it :)
BUT from my personal experience admission people like small (500 words) essay and I know that it very hard to express yourself in such a small space. but it is a part of the challenging process which is called the college admission. Laconic essay is a big plus, because it shows that you can develop your idea in a little space, and it is another skill besides logic and etc that colleges like.</p>
<p>I knew I had to cut it down but I was too lazy and needed some kind of spark to force me to edit.
I woke up this morning, checked my post, and immediately started to edit my essay.</p>
<p>I worked for an hour and was able to cut down to 586 words. But I'm afraid if I cut down more, my essay would lose its message. Would it be okay? </p>
<p>Thank you guys so much, sybbie719, TheOneCurlyFry, NBZ, NoFX, and DOLO2 !!!</p>
<p>You're welcome, and 586 is fine.</p>
<p>you are welcome ;) I agree with TheOneCurlyFry</p>
<p>Thanks again guys,,
my friend wants to know if 650 words essay is okay???</p>
<p>Mine was 663!! is that a problem?? :(</p>
<p>Remember that they set word limits knowing that many will go over it. I'm sure they'd be fine if it were 200 or so words over--which is why they set the limit to 300. If they simply said "500 words," then you'd have people submitting 700-word essays. :P</p>