<p>So my guidance counselor helps us edit all our essays for college and stuff. Basically, he forces all of us to write the Common App personal statement and college supplements in narrative form.I finished my Common App personal statement and it was written in narrative form. Now I'm doing two college supplements for American University and George Washington University. AU is asking me to discuss my academic goals, how American University would help me achieve them, discuss an issue of importance to you and how you hope to become further involved with it as a member of the American University community. GWU is asking how you will make your own history/real change in the community and/or world. Now I don't think narrative form would be appropriate for answering these questions. I'm really considering writing these supplements on my own without him. I don't see narrative form being of use here. I understand why the Common App personal statement would be written in narrative form but on these supplements? What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Narrative is expected, yes. What are you thinking, bullet points, in the form of an epic poem or what?</p>
<p>I think in the case of supplements “narrative form” just means you write the essay in the first person - using I - and from your perspective, using peronal examples. You don’t have to use a story setting for those supplements.</p>