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The Common Application, however, does have a hard word limit maximum of 650, so if you use your Apply Texas Essay A for the Common App, be sure to shorten to 650 or less words. My clients and I use 750-850 and 350-400 because every word and sentence they’re writing contributes something new. For the short answers, my clients and I work with 350-400 words or so. I suggest no more than 850 words for Essay A for no other reason than it probably isn’t necessary to communicate your thoughts in 900 or 950 words. What’s in common with my clients’ essays regardless of themes and content is they’re all concise, detailed, and highlight specific experiences unique to that student. If your essay is interesting, informative, captures your reader’s attention, and writes concisely, then sure, go for 700-750. If it fits, you can submit.Ĭheck out my new book Surviving the College Admissions Madness and Youtube Channel Should your essay exceed the word limit recommendations?ĭo you have 750-800 words worth of critical, necessary, and interesting content that you need to communicate? If not, then write more concisely, economically, and directly to make your same points in less words. If your essays fit into the Apply Texas boxes and it doesn’t cut off your words, it submits. No, your reader won’t know how many words you’ve submitted. To reiterate, YES you can submit more than 500-750 words on Essay A if you need the extra word space. To further confuse things, Coalition Application “recommends” 550 words, which doesn’t align with anything in particular. I know this process has a lot of stress and anxiety, but one place you don’t have to worry is whether your essays for Apply Texas fit perfectly in some word limit because, again to stress, there is no firm word limit maximum. Students who are submitting EXACTLY 700 or 300 words are not doing themselves any favors. The new “ Go Apply Texas” portal that has gone live for Fall 2022 applicants and onward allows up to 500 words for the short answers and around 1,500 words for Essay A, which is an even higher word limit than the previous Apply Texas portal. Recommended, suggested, and “please keep” does not amount to a strict word limit maximum. Neither Apply Texas nor the Coalition Application have hard word limits. Your UT-Austin essays can be longer than the RECOMMENDED word limits.