<p>I'm a little hung up on how to answer this question. Do I approach it like the common app essay and make it like a narrative, or should I be straightforward and just describe my summer experiences?</p>
<p>Also, on an unrelated note, if I don't write the engineering essay, is it still possibly for me to become an engineering major? In all likelihood I would probably go to Princeton to study physics, but at some point I may change my mind and switch to engineering.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter; everyone approaches it differently. If it was supposed to be answered a certain way, the application would say so.</p>
<p>You can make a bulleted list, a small essay, a few sentences…anything.</p>
<p>Also, I am pretty sure you can transfer into the engineering college, but I do not know how hard it is to do so.</p>
<p>It is definitely possible to switch into engineering. Engineering has more requirements…math, physics, chemistry, computer science. However, if you come into it knowing you may want to switch later and take some of these anyway (or place out of them with AP credits) then switching isn’t too difficult.</p>