<p>Guys, very important here....</p>
<p>For your Deerfield's every, the one where you write about yourself, how many words or pages did you guys write?</p>
<p>bump :]</p>
<p>hahahahha</p>
<p>I wrote around 3500 words.</p>
<p>OMG, seriously? I think that too much, i wrote about 2350, and i had to spend over 4 hours writing the thing down.</p>
<p>Haha, don't worry, I spent quite a while writing it too. I don't think the size really matters as long as it's not just a paragraph or 50 pages</p>
<p>lmfaoo, whatd u write about?</p>
<p>the story behind wanting to go to Princeton University u___u;;</p>
<p>you?</p>
<p>my past :]</p>
<p>100, im guessing you used your story to tell your adviser more about yourself?</p>
<p>I have about 800 words.</p>
<p>yep, it was really hard making it interesting though.
I tried to stay along what it told me to do,
the goals and such.</p>
<p>Like 450? barely. :D</p>
<p>to op - thanks for posting this thread. i was really wondering the length of other people's essays for deerfield. </p>
<p>mine is somehwere around 1200 words. </p>
<p>did you guys just strictly adhered to the things they asked on the paper? (goals, hopes, expectations, and influences)</p>
<p>Nope. But I centered the essay around that in an indirect way.</p>
<p>yes mine too. i have main focus of what im trying to say throughout the essay, and included the things they asked for. </p>
<p>but seriously, the writing out part takes a long time</p>
<p>Oh God, 1004soul, you wrote about wanting to go to Princeton? You might want to rethink that, they probably get tons of sleazy-sounding essays from people who want to go to ivy leagues so you might want to set yourself apart a little... Why not actually set the focus of the essay on yourself and why you want to go to Deerfield? You know, rather than writing the essay about how you want to use Deerfield as a stepping stone to somewhere else</p>
<p>Is 700 words okay? It sounds so little compared to 3500!! (I wrote about being proud and knowledgeable of your culture and world culture)</p>
<p>My interviewer mentioned some things that I should include in the essay. I pretty much stuck to the prompt and kept it short and sweet.</p>
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Oh God, 1004soul, you wrote about wanting to go to Princeton? You might want to rethink that, they probably get tons of sleazy-sounding essays from people who want to go to ivy leagues so you might want to set yourself apart a little... Why not actually set the focus of the essay on yourself and why you want to go to Deerfield? You know, rather than writing the essay about how you want to use Deerfield as a stepping stone to somewhere else
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<p>LOL, don't you worry. There's a story behind it. It isn't anything like;</p>
<p>"my mom went to princeton. So I'm gonna go."</p>
<p>also, I didn't really mention deerfield as a "stepping stone" for going to college, because that isn't why I want to go to deerfield at all. I'm sure if I went to my local public school, I'd still have a chance to go to princeton. Not to mention that the schools are already expecting people to go "only for college".</p>
<p>I really didn't want to base the essay around deerfield because frankly; a lot of people will be writing about that, trying to win the admissions over.</p>
<p>sorry if I sound a bit defensive, but I think that I showed myself as an individual,
not a random kid who wants to go to boarding school because they think it's their one way ticket to the ivy leagues (:</p>
<p>P.S.
the focus IS on myself.
It's not on princeton :p</p>
<p>omg, I just realized I said I wrote 3500 words.</p>
<p>I meant 3500 CHARACTERS -__________-;;
sorry to the people who thought I had written like twenty pages hahaha</p>
<p>I'll go fix that.</p>
<p>Ya I didnt want to say anything, but no admissions officer would want to read 3500 words...</p>