How long was your counselor letter?

[HollyinNNV]

If you could tell me how many pages your counselor letter was I'd appreciate it!!

TIA,

Holly

[Jen in NY]

limit as possible.....

 

I don't know if this is a good strategy or not, but I would guess they read a LOT of stuff everyday.

 

I think I ended up between 2300-2400 characters, which I will upload.

[Brenda in MA]

My son applied in 2008-9, and there were no limits for the lengths of the student essay and the counselor letter.

 

I thought I read some where that the Common App has limited the student's essay to 500 words now, which I think is too short. Is there now a hard limit on the counselor letter, too, or is the 2000 words thing a recommendation?

 

Brenda

[dirty ethel rackham]

Mine was over 800 words, which ended up over 4100 characters. I did mine as a word document and uploaded it. I don't remember if I had to convert it to .pdf first.

[Candid]

One thing to consider is the amount of time admits spend reading an applications I've heard mostly 10 -15 minutes at most. What do you want to shine forth in that time?

 

Also, admits are very leery of things that parents can control. In a traditional setting they like teacher recommends better than counselor letters for the reason that they believe teachers will be more honest.

 

So I would have a care not to use my time up on the wrong thing.

[HollyinNNV]

Thanks for all your responses.

Holly