<p>The first essay choice is:</p>
<p>Option 1 - Tell us about a person who has influenced you in a significant way.</p>
<p>Is it ok if the essay is just generally about what it's like to be a youngest brother, and I only really mention my brothers in the intro, conclusion and one of the body paragraphs?</p>
<p>To me, it sounds like a misguided recycle attempt.</p>
<p>Sorry if that was harsh; now I’ll try to be more helpful.</p>
<p>Assuming you are trying to re-use an existing essay, perhaps you modify it to tell how one of your older siblings influenced you, the younger brother.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>It is a misguided recycle attempt :)</p>
<p>At this late stage I’ll probably just go with what I have and hope for the best. Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>use it but change it perhaps to fit the question better</p>
<p>Or think about maybe using choice 4… quote of your choice from something you’ve read in the past year. I’m recycling essays, and I heard that they don’t mind you choosing choice 4.</p>
<p>lol seems like everyone’s recycling essays for princeton…</p>
<p>anyway, i’m doing the same option 1 and using an essay i wrote in apush a year ago. i’ve chopped half the essay off though (the more informational/factual part) and wrote on how it influenced me in the last 3rd of the essay.</p>
<p>at least make an attempt to change it so it doesn’t look so obvious that it’s a recycle attempt. i mean, even we could tell it was from just reading a one-line synopsis you gave us.</p>
<p>good luck though!</p>
<p>for choice 4, does the quote have to be from an essay or book, or can it just be a quote someone famous once said…I mean I’m sure that would have appeared in an essay somewhere…or maybe not.</p>
<p>How strict are they about the word limits? One is supposed to be 300 words… but can i submit 2 500 word essays?</p>
<p>^300 words? Which one?</p>
<p>The essay is approximately 500 words (so, between 450 and 550 is a good number)… are you talking about the summers question?</p>
<p>^ probably. there’s nowhere else on the supplement where there’s another writing opportunity.</p>
<p>Anyhow, you won’t be able to cross over the character limit for the summers question – they count down every character you use and will not let you save/printpreview/submit it unless it’s within limit.</p>
<p>I’m using the Princeton Application… one essay is supposed to be 300 words and the other is supposed to be 500 - not the summer one
Have I gone wrong somewhere?</p>
<p>^ EDIT: Oh, never mind, I see what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>They want you to do 2 of those essays b/c the princeton application doesn’t have an essay that the common app does. Basically, they want you to choose 2 of the four prompts. Make one of those 500 words (the more important one to you, probably), and make the other essay 300 words.</p>
<p>what does “recycling essays” mean lol</p>
<p>and what are all the options?? -just curious</p>
<p>^Recycling essays means you can use an essay from one school for another school. It saves you some time b/c you don’t have to write a completely new essay. I did this with a couple of essays.</p>
<p>basically hitting 4 birds with one stone, if you want to think of it that way.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, actually I literally did hit 4 birds with one stone in terms of colleges. I used Princeton’s supplemental essay (option one - the person’s influence on you) for Harvard, Yale, and MIT. All 4 have the same essay (or just about the same; I had to add 2 sentences for MIT’s in order to fully address the question).</p>
<p>Actually I originally wrote this essay for the Common App:</p>
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<p>The essay I’m using as my Common App essay was originally written for Caltech:</p>
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<p>These are the only two essays I’ve written (aside from several short answers for different schools), and I’ve adapted them to fit prompts for the UC’s, Harvard, Harvey Mudd and now Princeton. We’ll see if my laziness comes back to haunt me.</p>
<p>I’ll look for a quote online that maybe fits the essay.</p>
<p>To AnnaSmith:
Yup, I think it has to be in an essay or book (“Option 4 - Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a jumping off point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation at the beginning of your essay.”)
You should ask the admissions office about this just to make sure 
Hope this helps (or it might just be ranting)</p>
<p>i did the option four but quoted a poem. there is noooooo way they would reject someone for doing something like that so don’t worry.</p>