<p>So, on princeton's supplement, it asks to "Please tell us how you have spent the last two summers (or vacations between school years), including any jobs you have held, if not already detailed on the Common Application."</p>
<p>If I have already attached a more in-depth description of all of my activities on the "additional information" section of the common app, should I leave this space blank? Or should I elaborate on an activity I did (in sort of an essay-ish format)?</p>
<p>THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR YOU HELP! :)</p>
<p>I did an essayish format, but I didn’t talk about some of it in other spots. Though I guess my engineering supplement was a bit repetitive. If you have new info you can add to your summers or to tie it all together I would use that space, but otherwise it may seem redundant. It might be a good idea to see if you can ask an admissions officer.</p>
<p>bump bump… what have people who have gotten accepted done?</p>
<p>I was accepted SCEA</p>
<p><em>cough</em>, bump again. Anyone leave it blank?</p>
<p>I would not leave it blank. Mention that you talked about it in your common app extended info section AT LEAST. It does come off as slightly lazy though…</p>
<p>Heres what I would do… Just further talk about your summers. Not necessarily a detailed report about your activities (again), but discuss how these activities better prepared you for the next academic year. Or discuss how you had to balance study and play. Talk about SOMETHING honestly…it just looks bad leaving a whole section blank. Any moral dilemnas over the summer? bad girlfriend perhaps? Did you just ride your bike a lot? </p>
<p>Talk about the not-so-monumental aspects of your free time. Your summer wasn’t entirely spent volunteering with Libyan refugees or working at the soup kitchen curing cancer. I know mine wasn’t. Those “resume friendly” activities took up approximately .001% of my time. I spent approximately 50% of my waking hours biking and screwing around on my bike with my friends…so I wrote about that. It was truthful. That was what I did for most of my time. Its not glorious, but its the truth. </p>
<p>accepted SCEA btw</p>
<p>oh, I just put “Described in Summer Activities Section of Additional Information.”</p>
<p>Uhh, did I just screw myself over by not actually writing an essay here…?</p>
<p>:-|
~poker face~</p>
<p>My son was accepted SCEA. He wrote an additional essay in the additional info section.</p>