<p>Ok.</p>
<p>does the prompt say that it’s an autobiography of my ENTIRE life? </p>
<li>like, my future, and 300 pages is my entire life</li>
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<p>OR</p>
<li>is it 300 pages of my life SO FAR…i’m only in 11th grade.</li>
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<p>OR</p>
<li>Either Way, doesnt matter.</li>
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<p>I remember people in this forum who got accepted interpreting it either way.</p>
<p>But as I recall most people interpreted as #2</p>
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<li>either way</li>
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<p>that's good that's good. i do hope like #2 better (coz i dont want to talk about my future, its gay) lol</p>
<p>haha that essay i totally just used my common app essay! i wrote about my dad and his "escape" from communism from china... so that'd be my past/present/future effect on my life... haha screw autobiography</p>
<p>I did the same with andy, but i wrote about a harsh moment in my life and my illness.</p>
<p>i think it's easier to write about the past that i can remember the whole thing. But if you got the really creative idea about your future (and confident that adcoms like it), go ahead with it.</p>
<p>Yeah, I liked Penn's essay prompts. They were pretty open. They practically could have just used "Write any essay that you think we will like" as a prompt.</p>
<p>I did 1) and wrote about how I did something really amazing on page 216, which sadly wasn't included.</p>
<p>The book 'the best 50 college essays' of petersons (i'm not sure about the name, but it's a blue, about 1-cm thick book) included Penn's dean of admissions comments. He says he's most interested in what's most important for individual applicants. I wondered if page 217 could be more important than any first or last pages. But I also made my 217 page capable of being either the first or the last page. (I don't know what's the number is all about--it could mean the memorable phenomenon or something absent-but-important about a person.)</p>
<p>there is a penn section in that book??
is there a penn section in the 100 essays by harvard book?</p>
<p>Chanman - an essay about exploring your sexual orientation could be successful if you avoid the cliches, so don't rule out option 1.</p>
<p>Either way is cool, I think there's a slight tendency to take option 2, but personally I find option 1 more interesting.</p>
<p>wow you sure are looking at the essays early... </p>
<p>I started in November.</p>
<p>lol i started december 28th.</p>
<p>I think the essay prompt just simply says "write something about yourself"</p>