On the Common Application website it says that the Application Essay needs to be 500 words or less, but there are many essays on this website, which are longer than 500 words. I even saw one with more than 800 words. So my question is : How imporant is it to keep it less than 500 words and what happens if I submit one with more than 500 words ?
New York University Undergraduate College Application Essays
These New York University college application essays were written by students accepted at New York University. All of our sample college essays include the question prompt and the year written. Please use these sample admission essays responsibly.
College Application Essays accepted by New York University
- I Write
- My Time in France
- Harmony
- Friends
- Life Changing Experiences
- Trying Not to Escape
- Nothing is Given on a Silver Platter
- The Loss
- A Message to a Terrorist
- Driven
- Music Therapy
- A New Life
- My China, My Japan
- A loss that has changed me for the better
- Family Photos
- Grammasaura Lactate(s) Resin: Anagrammatical Treasures
- My life defining moment
- Autism
- A Newfound Nostalgia
- On Being a Middle Child
- Debate Struggle
- The General
- Paradiddle
- Every Saturday Night
- A Month in Ghana
- Spiderman
- Fight or Flight
- Hakuna Matata
- "Oh, the Places you'll Go"
- Falling Toward the Future
- Northville-Lake Placid Trail
- An International Childhood
- Growing Up
- Life Changing Experience
- Climbing to Confidence
- Learning Curiosity
- My Conflict
- Success In Humiliation
- Responses For NYU Supplement
- Pipo
- Jan the Troubadour
- Who I Am: My Interests and Aspirations
- The Power of Exposure
- For the Love of the Script
- Fighting Ignorance
- Regrets
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