-- Posted by Majo at 7:23 pm on Mar. 21, 2008 The scholarship I'm applying for states that "a separate essay of no more than 1,000 words on a topic of your choice is required within the enclosed application" and I'm wondering if 357 words will be enough. See, I'm behind in filling this stuff out. My school screwed up and didn't give me the required paperwork when they were supposed to months ago so now I'm rushing to get it all done. I don't really want to have to think of a topic last minute, research it, and then type up a whole new essay so I looked up an old essay of mine that I was quite proud of. It's well written (I showed it to my parents and my Gram without telling them I'd written it, asked them what they thought, and then told them it was mine. They were shocked. ) so I'm thinking its only being 357 words long won't matter. It was longer at first but I had to cut it short, I'd gone over the limit. Think it'd be okay? -- Posted by runnergirl16 at 7:30 pm on Mar. 21, 2008 Wow, how much did you cut out? If you would've gone over the limit if you hadn't edited it you must've cut out at least 650 or so words. That seems like a large chunk of content your essay is missing, but I suppose it's quality over quantity. Exactly how much would you have gone over the limit? -- Posted by Majo at 7:46 pm on Mar. 21, 2008 Oh, sorry, I meant to say that I went over the limit the first time I wrote it. I don't really know how I ended up with 357 words...maybe the limit was 350 and I decided to sneak in the last seven. I was going to try and add more on but I can't remember what I took off and I have another essay to write so I'm not really in the mood to try and add more on if I can get away with submitting what I have. -- Posted by onthink at 8:27 am on Mar. 29, 2008 The essay is good, Just make some small changes. -- Posted by Summer2008 at 8:58 am on May 18, 2008 If they set 1000 words as a maximum then 357 words seem like a little to me.