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they might afford you points for your audacity certainly, perhaps even creativity... :p

I'm standing at 35 words over, and cannot for the life of me bring it down anymore... meanwhile one of my recommenders is still untraceable..! fun times..!

Is 35 then acceptable?
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I interpreted the 1800 words as a strict limit based on the essay instructions from Stanford:

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We provide some guidelines below as a starting point, but you should feel comfortable to write as much or as little as you like on any essay question, as long as you do not exceed 1,800 words total.
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I just wonder how do they check. I just made it 1800 even. I wonder how do any of these schools check anyway? In for R2. 265$ down.
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I just wonder how do they check. I just made it 1800 even. I wonder how do any of these schools check anyway? In for R2. 265$ down.
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I'm pretty sure if they really wanted to check they would be able to use OCR (optical character recognition) and run a script to get a word count. I'm not sure if they would actually do that but the technology exists and its a click of a button after the initial software is developed.

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ApplyYourself may even provide that to the schools. It might be why they ask for specific fonts too... Makes the OCR a little easier and probably have 100% accuracy on it.
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Without using any technology,it would be very clear when the count exceeds by 200 300 words. My question was if they cared for 30 40 words. I doubt their font specification has anything to do with word count, that is more readability. I think.

But since S says cannot exceed 1800 words they may be stricter on this versus others..

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In for R2. Good luck for everybody
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Without using any technology,it would be very clear when the count exceeds by 200 300 words. My question was if they cared for 30 40 words. I doubt their font specification has anything to do with word count, that is more readability. I think.

But since S says cannot exceed 1800 words they may be stricter on this versus others..

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Agreed. I'm not sure if they would care or not either but if they wanted to be strict about it, it wouldn't take much for them to perform the check. Personally, I don't think a few words over would hurt your application but you never know... Why take the chance? Especially considering even the best essays probably have a couple of sentences of fluff.

I think the fonts are for readability as well but just trying to point out it makes it even easier to check with standard fonts. :)
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As in haas where you copy paste the essays into boxes, the words are easily counted, in fact the other areas of that application actually have boxes where they won't let you enter more words, so why not make it all like that? Saves time with all this word PDF etc. We don't care about formatting anyway it is more the content...

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As in haas where you copy paste the essays into boxes, the words are easily counted, in fact the other areas of that application actually have boxes where they won't let you enter more words, so why not make it all like that? Saves time with all this word PDF etc. We don't care about formatting anyway it is more the content...

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Not sure if you had formatting issues with the Haas forms. Ugh, that was such a pain! It also counted 2 consecutive spaces as a word (which I do at the start of every sentence) so I had to go and delete my extra space for every sentence!

Valid point though, aside from the side effects of the Haas forms... :(
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In for R2... finally!
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also in for R2 :) phew, done w/ apps finally!
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As in haas where you copy paste the essays into boxes, the words are easily counted, in fact the other areas of that application actually have boxes where they won't let you enter more words, so why not make it all like that? Saves time with all this word PDF etc. We don't care about formatting anyway it is more the content...

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Not sure if you had formatting issues with the Haas forms. Ugh, that was such a pain! It also counted 2 consecutive spaces as a word (which I do at the start of every sentence) so I had to go and delete my extra space for every sentence!

Valid point though, aside from the side effects of the Haas forms... :(
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Yes I had issues with haas, but that is a whole another topic and with booth too.. hopefully next time it will all be fixed.. But the point as you noted was why not prohibit people from writing beyond your specific limit, it can be done! And that eliminates all guessing...
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submitted..... finallly. Its amazing how I've been proof-reading and re-proof-reading for the past 6 hours!
But I do somehow feel confident about this application.. fingers crossed now!

on a side note... i did eventually bring it down to 1798 words. Simply could not risk it.
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Submitted (FINALLY)! Now onto writing the HBS essays in 4 days...
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Just sent in my app (1798 words, didn't want to risk it either)!!! I'm on to HBS too.
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Anyone know when we should expect to hear about interviews?
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Anyone know when we should expect to hear about interviews?
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I got dinged without an interview, but when I visited Stanford about 6 weeks after the submission deadline I met a few people who had just gotten their interview invites a few days prior. This was about a month before the R1 decision announcement date.
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Talk about cutting it close, I just submitted mine.

1860 words total (59 of those were the essay prompts themselves), I hope the AdCom realizes that :)

Now is the time to cross my fingers and tape them that way till I get in!
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1860 words total (59 of those were the essay prompts themselves), I hope the AdCom realizes that :)
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I just labeled them as "Essay 1" "Essay 2" "Essay 3C" and "Essay 3D".
Hopefully that doesn't result in a ding :shock:
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1860 words total (59 of those were the essay prompts themselves), I hope the AdCom realizes that :)

I just labeled them as "Essay 1" "Essay 2" "Essay 3C" and "Essay 3D".
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Lol, I don't think that matters. I love it how people obsess over inconsequential details (I am one of them).
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