<p>for the favorite section:</p>
<p>can I put my favorite book as Harry Potter, or do I need to be more specific and write Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince?</p>
<p>No offense- but that's really cliche. Try to be more original?</p>
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<p>You heard the guy, learn to like another book.</p>
<p>By the way, I am not a guy. I'm a girl. :(</p>
<p>lol, BrightFuture.</p>
<p>I think we're overanalyzing a bit... I'm sure that putting Harry Potter would be just fine.</p>
<p>That is just crazy how people are telling you that your favourite book will affect your admissions. Maybe it does, but I doubt it'll make that much of a difference.</p>
<p>I didn't like the last Harry Potter book. If I were to put down a harry potter book it would be the Prisoner of Azkaban!</p>
<p>Ditto on that one, kjoodles.</p>
<p>And yes, just answer the question honestly. It's not nice to create a whole new personality for the university you love when you truly love it.</p>
<p>I want Princeton to like me for who I am, just like I like Princeton for what it is with all its flaws.</p>
<p>I love HP, and if adcom doesn't like it, then they can just deal with it.</p>
<p>So should I choose a book, or can I just write "Harry Potter series"</p>
<p>I really hope that Princeton isn't that shallow that it would base it's decision on the "favorite section." I think it's just there to make us feel better and for them to get a better understanding of us.</p>
<p>P.S. I was thinking of writing my optional essay on how I found my hogwarts when I went to Princeton, and how it's the perfect "fit".....but there are so many other good things I can write about too. However, it is one of the possiblities :)</p>
<p>Unless your favorite book is something incredibly idiotic or something like a textbook (to suck up), your choice of book will offer little more than a glimpse of your personality, and thus will not alter admissions very much, if at all. </p>
<p>If you are a diehard HP fan, put it down, though I'd pick a specific book (Goblet of Fire all the way!). Just putting "Harry Potter" would look to me as if you didn't even read the books but just put it down because HP is popular. Just a thought.</p>
<p>ahh! pick a favorite harry potter book... is that possible?! They are all brilliant!!! Sure, maybe Chamber of Secrets was a bit of a low point, and Order of the Phoenix certainly had its weak spots... but to pick a favorite would be an insult to the sheer genius of the other books. I'm not quite sure I could bring myself to do it :)</p>
<p>Goblet of Fire hell yeah! <3 Order of phoenix was depressing, and the half blood prince is just so so so depressing. I hated this book. </p>
<p>I don't know, i still disagree with everyone else and it would be nice to be creative - but of course you can put it down, it won't diminish your chances! Im just saying it's nice to look unique or whatever, in all parts of your application :)</p>
<p>mmm. I wish I had a owl to deliver my post! I would just send my Princeton App along Owl Post! I wonder if they have registed owl post or Global express owl post????????</p>
<p>much much more reliable than anything here that I can afford although I find it hard to believe an owl can fly faster than a aeroplane ... but then with an owl you don't have your usual load of beurecracy involved with playing around your package so it could be faster :p</p>
<p>Yes, it is a book.</p>
<p>Awesome! Answered that one easily........:D</p>
<p>It could also count as a film!</p>
<p>If you can make an original argument which reflects the kind of person you are, I don't see why not. I don't think Princeton admissions would be so stuck-up to reject your essay just because it's not a "sophisiticated" book. I think the HP books offer a lot of opportunites for deep analysis, more so than most books we read at school!</p>
<p>PoA and HBP were the best Harry Potter books by far! I could also just have some love for multiples of 3! Lol! :). In reality, they were. PoA was the book that actually got me hooked with the series. HBP, "short" (Harry Potter standards) and thrilling.</p>
<p>i enjoyed reading Life of Pi a lot this summer, but I still think that HP is my favorite book.</p>
<p>The three favorite ones for me are PoA, GoF and HBP. It's especially a tough call between GoF and HBP.</p>
<p>I'm such a diehard HP fan!!</p>
<p>I loved HBP, but then again I'm a Snape fan and getting to see more of him was great. And don't get me started on the Lightning-Struck Tower, I will argue that chapter for hours.</p>
<p>I liked GoF, and PoA...oh I just can't choose!</p>
<p>Snape is evil. After 5 books for being the good guy he's finally gone evil. I found it sad. My gf at the time cried. My mom thought we were crazy ;)</p>
<p>I know many of you will disagree with this but its still one darn good laugh: <a href="http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=harry%5B/url%5D">http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=harry</a></p>
<p>Hahaha, yes, hilarious.</p>
<p>And Snape, for the record, isn't evil. He knew Dumbledore was about to die anyway and rather than reveal himself and die for breaking the Unbreakable Vow, killed Dumbledore when their eyes met (Legilimency by Snape into Dumbledore's willing mind let him know how things stood).</p>
<p>And yes, I realize how unsupported and overall, crazy, it sounds, but I doubt JR would want to teach kids "Don't trust people and make sure NEVER to give them a second chance".</p>
<p>Saying you really like Harry Potter is like coming out in favor of macaroni and cheese. It may well be true, but isn't there something a little more interesting and a little less common that you could say about yourself? There must be some other book you also like a lot. It doesn't have to be Aristotle, but don't you also like something a classier and a little wittier than Harry Potter books that you could talk about? Maybe some James Thurber or PG Wodehouse or Douglas Adams or something like that?</p>