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meercat
meercat asked in Education & ReferenceHigher Education (University +) · 1 decade ago

How long should my graduate school essay be?

Hello -

I am writing an essay for a Graduate School Application, and the prompt says that it should be at least 200 words. How long do you think it should be in the end? I don't want it to be a full page and have them not even want to read it all. On the flipside, I don't want to write 200-300 words and have them think I couldn't be bothered to write a decent essay. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

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  • X
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I direct a graduate program in the humanities, and routinely receive application essays that run from 3-5 pages. We always read the whole thing. :)

    Our program's guideline is a 250 word (1 page) minimum.

  • anon
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I think that all of my essays were between 1 and a half and 2 and a half pages double spaced. Good luck, writting the essays was definitly the worst part of the application process for me.

  • Ranto
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It shouldn't be longer than two pages. You should try to fill up an entire page.

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