Writing a scholarship application - word count (1 Viewer)

[emilios]

Applying for the UNSW Co-Op scholarship atm and there's about 8-9 questions specified at "Word limit: 1000 words". My question is whether I should aim to write this much, or will it get too fluffy? Will I still have a good chance if I write, say, 500 words for each question?

 

[seventhroot]

500 words; gg no re

if you're writing half of what they around expecting then no

 

[astroman]

999

 

[mreditor16]

Applying for the UNSW Co-Op scholarship atm and there's about 8-9 questions specified at "Word limit: 1000 words". My question is whether I should aim to write this much, or will it get too fluffy? Will I still have a good chance if I write, say, 500 words for each question?

be careful. the form for co-op has character limits not word limits.

so essentially a question asking for 1000 characters or less (they include spaces) is requiring 200 words or so....

 

[emilios]

500 words; gg no re

if you're writing half of what they around expecting then no

Well it's not like it's one lump sum application - it's 8-9 different questions. How are the people reading it going to sift through 9000 words for each of the say, 500-1000 students that apply? Don't you think being concise and economical with your words is worth more than a bit of extra fluff?

 

[emilios]

be careful. the form for co-op has character limits not word limits.

so essentially a question asking for 1000 characters or less (they include spaces) is requiring 200 words or so....

OHHHHH mreditor ILY so much. i was wondering how one could write so much hahaha

 

[mreditor16]

OHHHHH mreditor ILY so much. i was wondering how one could write so much hahaha

lol I struggled to be concise. haha so yeah.

 

[seventhroot]

Well it's not like it's one lump sum application - it's 8-9 different questions. How are the people reading it going to sift through 9000 words for each of the say, 500-1000 students that apply? Don't you think being concise and economical with your words is worth more than a bit of extra fluff?

well when I applied for ES; everything was in dot points but I am assuming there is a different standards for CO-OP

 

[obliviousninja]

be careful. the form for co-op has character limits not word limits.

so essentially a question asking for 1000 characters or less (they include spaces) is requiring 200 words or so....

the character limit was a bit annoying to get around. but in the end my lack of activities destroyed me in the interview