<p>would it be okay if i send my new material to Princeton this coming week?</p>
<p>Here is what i plan to include:</p>
<p>-transcript from university class
-edited activity list with more explanation
-maybe an extra-reference letter (i sent in 3 already, should i still send this one)
-and this one im asking for ur advice.. i edited my princeton ED essay.. so that its about 1.5 as good as the one i sent, and about 30% different... should i still send it in and tell them that i just edited it and its a better essay?
-maybe a short answer on how i got interested in princeton.</p>
<p>Send in the edited essay and transcripts, but I would be cautious about sending in extra recommendations. Only send them in if they show another side of you; three recs from teachers is just too much.</p>
<p>They let you update your app, so feel free to update anything.</p>
<p>OK, i see what you mean.. i won't send in the rec then... but since as a princeton student, you think sending in the edited essay is a good idea, i will. :)</p>
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<li>I got deferred from Yale, and I asked my Yale alumni interviewer if I should send in an updated/more detailed activity resume. She told me not to do that. </li>
<li>Most colleges say that an extra letter of recommendation won't do anything for you unless is so completely different from the others in what it tells the adcoms about you. </li>
<li>I'm not really sure about the essay. I understand what you're going through because I feel like my common app and supplement essay has improved so much since I edited it for other colleges' apps. BUT the thing is that the adcoms could read the two essays side by side... and compare them. That kind of creeps me out, but I don't even know if they'd take the time to do that. You could, on the other hand, send in an additional essay that covers the extra 30% that wasn't covered in your original essay. My Yale alumni interviewer recommended sending an additional essay. </li>
<li>Transcript from the university class seems fine. </li>
<li>A short letter on your interest in Princeton is fine, too, but keep it very, very concise.</li>
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<p>hey suburbian, thx!!</p>
<p>yeah, the essay i edited for my common app is just so much better........ i feel if i don't send it then some of the "good stuff" in it might be wasted.....</p>
<p>btw, when did you send your stuff to yale? i hope its not too late now.</p>
<p>I'm just sending in a letter...
but my counselor said I should send them a copy of the photograph I won an award for last year (since I mentioned my award in my app but never sent in a portfolio). Do you think that's a silly idea?</p>
<p>We can send in supplementary material until the end of the month, pw - it's not too late.</p>
<p>I haven't sent anything in yet...</p>
<p>I sent one e-mail to make a correction/update to my application, but otherwise I'm still working on my "major" packet.</p>
<p>yeah i know they said in the letter we have till the end of the month.. but i hope they wont start re-reviewing our files. :(</p>
<p>I really doubt they'll start reviewing yet when they probably haven't even started seriously reading the new RD apps.</p>
<p>ok.. alright..... how does a peer rec sound? lol.. a frd wrote me one for darmtouth and he knows a lot of things that none of my frds, teachers, and counselors even know....</p>
<p>You should have submitted that as your third rec, then. Seriously, four recs is too much for an app. Some schools just don't want peer recs.</p>
<p>PW, I'd send however many recs you want. Worst case scenario is that they don't read them - which isn't great, but not exactly a death-inducing scenario either. I'd say send them.</p>
<p>I had four recs for my original app. Two of them were unsolicited...they just wrote letters =/</p>
<p>question: do they read our apps along with the RD ppl's or do they wait till they're done the rd then read the deferrals?</p>
<p>I personally think that they wait and read them later, but this is just my opinion. And I'm sure they don't re-read anything. They'll read new stuff and look at their summary sheet of your app...</p>
<p>What I really think though is that they have three piles of deferrees. The "planning to admit RD to boost our stats/want them but didn't have room ED" pile, the "borderline will consider next to RD" pile and the "polite deferral you have no chance RD" pile.</p>
<p>sorry this may sound disgusting to some of you. </p>
<p>i actually tried to find a book to read on this... read it awhile ago. think it was by michele fernades.. she said some schools dont read them till later.. cuz there is no point rereading them right away when the rd pool isnot even read it.. so i just want to confirm that. adcoms wont tell us this for sure..</p>
<p>just send it in and hope for the best thats all you can do at this point</p>
<p>Just for the opposite viewpoint, I would NOT send a revised essay...just drop it---they aren't gonna reread the essays again anyway, I bet...I think they just grab the deferred, read their own notes skim for big changes and quick-decide. Also, revising the essay shows insecurity, I think.</p>