secondary application question

[dbr823]

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I'm currently in the process of writing secondary applications, but I keep finding myself answering the prompts in less words/characters than are available. For example, for a 250 word limit prompt I am finding that my essay response feels complete in 150 words. Is it bad for me to be consistently under the word/character limit? Do I really need to elaborate more? For some of the prompts, I feel like adding more words/characters to reach the limit would lead to me just bs-ing some stuff, and I think that would be worse than submitting a secondary with fewer words. Thoughts?

 

[NervousNerd]

I'm currently in the process of writing secondary applications, but I keep finding myself answering the prompts in less words/characters than are available. For example, for a 250 word limit prompt I am finding that my essay response feels complete in 150 words. Is it bad for me to be consistently under the word/character limit? Do I really need to elaborate more? For some of the prompts, I feel like adding more words/characters to reach the limit would lead to me just bs-ing some stuff, and I think that would be worse than submitting a secondary with fewer words. Thoughts?

KISS: keep it simple stupid

Don't fluff or BS just to fill space

 

[ace12345]

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

I would recommend reading as much George Orwell as possibly. Your writing/awesomeness will increase precipitously.