<p>Ok...2000 characters is a lot of crap.</p>
<p>I have something 800 characters...just simply said/listed what I did for the summers of 2008 and 2009.
So...do I treat it like an essay!?
Or am I cool?</p>
<p>I think mine’s around 900 characters, and it’s nothing fancy. Just what I did and a little phrase about what it did for me (although that’s not necessary if it doesn’t apply). Mine doesn’t stand out, but my commonapp and the supplement ones do, and those are the most important ones.</p>
<p>I think the 2000char is for people who might want to go on and on/have a lot to tell about exciting summers. I’d relax about it. It’s probably fine.</p>
<p>^hmm interesting.
lol i see. Any more input is SOO appreciated.</p>
<p>Idk what to put in there honestly. I just put few random things like traveled there, few hiking trips there, tutoring, youth exchanges etc. But I barely filled up 600 chars with this. I’m worried that it’s not enough. I would have had a lot more to write about but I passed on ALL foreign trips this summer cause I wanted to study for the SATs lol.</p>
<p>(This question has been answered many times in this forum over the past week, but I’ll answer it again anyway.)</p>
<p>I wrote an essay, but there are people who did what I did and people who wrote a list and/or a short description for each who were accepted. It’s up to you.</p>
<p>Wrote a blurb about how I worked to pay for Dual Enrollment classes/help support the family.</p>
<p>When I applied and got in two years ago, I put two sentences for this box. One sentence for each of the preceding summers.</p>
<p>For what that’s worth.</p>
<p>^I am amused and comforted by that statement, for some reason.</p>
<p>Oh F***. I made a bulleted list. Should I contact the admissions office and apologize and see if I can re-send it in essay format?</p>
<p>I don’t see why you wouldn’t take the opportunity to make it a short, concise essay. I mean, why not take every opportunity to show the adcoms who you are and appeal to them?</p>
<p>You can do whatever you want with this section. I wrote mine in paragraph form when I applied last year, but it was in no way an “essay” (compared to my actual common app essay or my essay on Princeton’s supplement).</p>
<p>So I SHOULD contact Princeton and apologize and send it to them in an essay format?</p>
<p>i would say no…</p>
<p>No, a bulleted list is fine.</p>
<p>heh, i wrote a 6 word “essay” :D</p>
<p>pigs, out of curiosity, could you post the 6 words? (or PM if you feel it will be stolen…ahahahahaha)</p>