<p>Okay, for my CommonApp essay, I wrote about when baseball ended for me and what it meant to me and how I dealt with it. (It's a long story but I told it well I think.)</p>
<p>For my Princeton supplemental essay, I picked Option 1 - Write about someone who had a significant influence on me. I chose to write about my 8th grade baseball coach, but while it had a baseball overtone the main points I conveyed were the lessons he taught me for life in general.</p>
<p>The two stories cover vastly different aspects of me as a person despite discussing the same subject - baseball. Was it a bad choice to write about baseball twice, even though I I am really passionate about the sport and I discuss different things I learned about it?</p>
<p>Also, I am a QuestBridge Finalist, and although my CommonApp essay is a slightly adapted version of one of the essays from that, I do have two other essays not related to baseball that Princeton will read.</p>
<p>FallenAngel9, my advice to you: don’t worry about it! Applications are in; we all did the best we could. And if you believe that your essays showed different things, then that’s awesome.</p>
<p>I agree with Ivy - it’s too nagging. It’ll twist your peace of mind inside-out. There are always things we want to change, always things that are colored just a little differently than they were when we wrote them. Relax. You can’t paint the air where your canvas used to be. </p>
<p>Also, I think talking about baseball is a great decision, one essays or two. Baseball is a sort of magical thing. You should read Summerland by Michael Chabon.</p>
<p>Reading lists should only grow and never shrink - doesn’t mean you can’t scoot a book up or down the queue. In Summerland, baseball becomes the epic that we all knew it was when we were seven. </p>
<p>Also, I have a feeling they will be willing to forgive the typo.</p>
<p>Haha I know, WesternBlot, but I just haven’t had time to read recently and I really need to get a few of those books read before I add any more. It’s a personal idiosyncrasy, if you know what I mean. Yeah I heard Summerland was amazing though, I can’t wait to read it.</p>
<p>Oh I know I figured that, just found it ironic that I discovered one because I was actually looking for what I answered for another thread on here. ;)</p>
<p>I understand about the reading - I have so many books going unread right now, but I have a knack for doing things out of order. But, I’m sure you’ll get to it. Have you read any other Michael Chabon? I love Jews who can’t help but write about other Jews. </p>
<p>@Joeshie. Well, you know how we do in Cali - those proteins won’t ID themselves. We have to keep muscle beach in good shape.</p>
<p>If you’d like any consolation, both of my essays were about music, and like yours, they covered different parts of my personality. I didn’t get into Princeton, but if I remember correctly you like Yale a lot And I got into another HYPSM haha.</p>
<p>The Amazing Adventurers of Kavalier & Clay is great. I’ve also read some essays from Manhood for Amateurs, but not the whole collection - I still recommend it. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union was good, but lost me near the end.</p>
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And I got into another HYPSM haha.</p>