<p>For the first essay about a person that has influenced you in a significant way should it be interpreted as it says..to tell them about the person or is it asking about the influence and about me more? I submitted my application two days ago and now i am worrying that I interpreted the essay wrong. I now its too late now but I am still kind of curious what everyone else thought. THANKS!</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the point of it is to show more about you than the person, but of course you'd have to describe the person too. </p>
<p>Ahhh I can't believe you submitted your application already! I'm pretty sure I'll be sending mine off the night before Nov. 1st because of my amazing procrastinating skills. Or wait... do I have until midnight the night of Nov. 1?</p>
<p>well i was forced too b/c the college office in my school set the deadline for submission of the school report and trancript request forms as october 12 and they refuse to send it out unless you show them the receipt of online submission.</p>
<p>Umm i know it has to be postmarked by November 1st but i would definitely not wait until midnight of november 1. What if something happens to your internet? BAD IDEA!</p>
<p>Yeah I know I was kidding.. sort of.. I actually have almost finished the application- I only really need to polish the essays- I just know I'll have a hard time pressing "review and payment." Hopefully I will send it out next week. We get decisions in 2 months! :)</p>
<p>btw, do we have to write on the essay about being influenced by someone? the wording is really dodgy.... Or can it literally be any ywo essays?</p>
<p>It can literally be any two essays of the choices they give. And the order of your choices does not have to match up with the order of your essays. For example, I did the 300-word one (my "second essay") about the influential person and the 500-word one ("first essay") about the last topic in the list. I was confused about this because of how it came out in the print preview and so asked the admissions office directly.
(BTW, I'm talking Pton app here, not CA & Supplement)</p>
<p>I just read an article that my teacher printed for me on how to attack these 'influential people' type essay prompts. Yes, the trick is you should subtly convey your character through talking about the other person -- it sounds like an oxymoron of some sort but it's very doable if you have a good approach. And personally I wouldn't think the adcoms would 'reject' an essay because it talked too much about the person you are describing and not enough about yourself.</p>
<p>thanx btlesgirl, u had me worried for a bit.....</p>
<p>Which essay- the 'influential person' or the quotation one- should be 500 words long?</p>
<p>It doesn't matter--that's what I was saying. According to the admissions person I e-mailed, just pick two of the several choices (that includes influential person and quotes) and write a 500-word essay about one and a 300-word one about the other. So, your 500-word one could be about the influential person & 300-word one a quote, or vice versa, or you could do two different quote ones--it doesn't matter! The only thing that's important is that the longer essay is in the "first essay" box and the shorter essay is in the "second essay" box.</p>
<p>Thanks.. that did claridy my doubt...</p>
<p>Hang on--I'm doing the Common app, so would my essays just be the 500-word personal statement, the 150 word extracurric. and the 300=word Pton quote/influential person one?</p>
<p>Yup, that sounds right.
Of course, if you were doing Pton app, you would have the same amount of writing to do, just 2 Pton topics for 500/300 and your EC essay.
Did anyone else find a lot of the app instructions a bit ambigious?</p>
<p>I sure did find the instructions confusing.</p>
<p>Yep, it was really badly written, especially when it came to the essays.. why didn't they just say 'here is a list of topics, pick 2, any 2........it doesnt matter'</p>