One strategy that I consistently use with all of my MBA, LL.M., MPA, MPP, Ph.D., and other graduate program clients is that I encourage them to initially not worry about word count (or page count, line count, or character count). The reason to write more than the word count is that the best part of the story, the most compelling part, might simply be edited out or never written at all because
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