Okay, I'll be totally honest about what my standards in Advanced are -- I want an effort at grammar, punctuation and spelling, and that isn't hard because there are spell-and-grammar checkers embedded in most word processors.

Beyond that, two paragraphs or more a post (not two thousand words) is sufficient.

If you can move past that bar, you should be fine in Advanced. And I've never said, "Go back to casual." (because I don't necessarily consider Casual beneath anyone -- I've gone and played there before, and I bet that is not a unique opinion in Advanced.) I always say, "Good luck in other RP's" and that's only occasionally due to the spelling/grammar/punctuation thing -- it's usually more like someone is proposing a character that is unworkable or is that sort of personality where I can tell that I'm gonna never be able to get anything done without an argument.

No one should have to be told 'oh, you're ready for advanced.' They should go there, and if they see an RP they like, get involved without fearing some sort of nasty backlash from the monsters that reputedly lurk there.