Big Application Question!

<p>Hey guys, I'm currently filling out Princeton's online app and I see that there's no place for putting that "extra info" like you see on the common app and most other college apps. Am I just missing it or should I include the info some other way? What's goin on guys, i'd like some help.</p>

<p>There is an optional "What else would you like us to know" page for the Princeton application. Put whatever you want there.</p>

<p>Bleh. Online. Nevermind what I said. I'll look it up right now.</p>

<p>You can send the "What else" form in the standard mail even if you apply online.</p>

<p>Alright, here we go. When you sign in they give you the welcome page, blah blah blah. Scroll down a bit and you get </p>

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Optional Forms and Foreign Secondary School Report</p>

<p>If you would like submit an optional form, or if you attend a secondary school outside the US or Canada and need to use the Foreign Secondary School Report, you may download the forms at <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/admissions%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/admissions&lt;/a>. Optional forms include:</p>

<pre><code>* Arts Background Supplement
* "What Else Would You Like Us to Know?"
* Optional Reference
</code></pre>

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<p>Here's the specific form(s)
<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/optionals.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/optionals.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>So you'll have to fill it out by hand and mail it in.</p>

<p>Bah. She beat me to it.</p>

<p>Mine response was more indepth though</p>

<p>:p</p>

<p>Ugh, that sounds like work I don't feel like doing. Hmmmm....now I face an ethical dilemma. You see, Princeton isn't my first choice, but I think sending something in would help. Do I make the effort still? Why can't they just make it easy on me?</p>

<p>Make the effort, I think.</p>

<p>What kind of stuff do you think we can send with that optional form? I was thinking of maybe sending a poem. Do you think that'd be ok?</p>

<p>Sure, anything. I sent a humor piece...well, I <em>think</em> it was funny, but who knows.</p>

<p>I sent an activity sheet. Wait. I did it by paper anyways actually, so i just put it in the folder. Much easier, atleast for princeton.</p>

<p>Here's what i was gonna send:</p>

<p>One last thing unique to me is that I am currently working on publishing a full Ebonics translation of the New Testament, a project I began my junior year. I had to study many Greek linguistic origins so that my translation maintained scriptural accuracy, but also spent many hours laboring over how to make the text as relevant as possible to the urban community. After much research, I found there are not any full Ebonics translations of the Bible currently in circulation, so I decided to make my translation a large-scale project. The famous Christian author Warren Wiersbe recently offered to find me a publisher for my work upon its completion.</p>

<p>It's true by the way. haha. Do you think i could fit in anywhere in the app?</p>

<p>So you know Ancient Greek? And Hebrew? That rocks--I think they'd love to know that in the supplement. (I've learned Ancient Greek myself--panu men oun, o Sokrates!)</p>

<p>No, I do not know Ancient Greek or Hebrew. However, I used many resources to look at the original Greek (not much Hebrew in the New Testament) and investigated the words' literal meaning in the original context to get a feel for how it would have been read when it was written.</p>

<p>I see. Elucidation: "After much research, I found there are not any full Ebonics translations of the Bible currently in circulation, so I decided to make my translation a large-scale project" was what led me to believe you knew Hebrew--for the Old Testament part.</p>

<p>I gotcha. What I meant by that was that when I researched it, there were only weak sauce paraphrases of a couple stories of the Bible, nothing of substance really, and so even the New Testament by itself would be a much "fuller" translation. Hmmmm....well, I guess I'll keep it how it is. I'm not purposefully trying to deceive them, but if they happen to interpret it as meaning i know ancient Greek and Hebrew, i'm certainly not opposed...</p>

<p>Are the optional recommendations and the What else would you like us to know REALLY optional? Should I send it these things if it's not my top choice? I sent the optional rec form to my supervisor where I volunteer, but she never responded and now she's on vacation. What should I do?</p>

<p>Maybe i'm missing something huge here guys. When i go to princeton's app site i click on where it says i can download the additional forms from and it's just the general admissions page with nowhere that shows me how to dowload the forms. I have to apply THIS WEEK so if someone could help me, i'd really appreciate it.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/&lt;/a>
^Go there and scroll ALL the way down to the bottom. Then click on the forms you need.</p>

<p>It says, for instance (on the very last line):

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Optional Reference and Optional ''What Else...'' forms [PDF]

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Click on "PDF" and the Acrobat file will come up on the screen. You can print it directly from online or save it to your computer.</p>

<p>Here are the actual form links:
• Common Application Princeton Supplement: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/pusup.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/pusup.pdf&lt;/a>
• Princeton Application [PDF w/o fields: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/puappl.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/puappl.pdf&lt;/a> / PDF with data-entry fields: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/puapplflds.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/puapplflds.pdf&lt;/a> ]
• Teacher reference forms: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/teachers.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/teachers.pdf&lt;/a>
• Secondary School Report: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/secschrpt.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/secschrpt.pdf&lt;/a>
• Foreign Secondary School Report: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/secschrptInt.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/secschrptInt.pdf&lt;/a>
• Mid-Year School Report: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/midyear.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/midyear.pdf&lt;/a>
• Optional Arts Background Supplement: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/arts.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/arts.pdf&lt;/a>
• Optional Reference and Optional ''What Else...'' forms: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/optionals.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/optionals.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Just click on any of the above links and the listed forms will come up in a new screen. Good luck!</p>

<p>Thanks sooooo much Kebree, you rock!</p>