<p>Will it hurt my chances if I choose not to submit the optional "What else would you like to tell us?" essay to Princeton? I honestly don't think I'll have time to perfect the essay I was thinking of sending, so I'm leaning towards not sending anything for that part at all...</p>
<p>What do you all think?</p>
<p>I don't think it's required at all, but alot of students had special topics they wanted to cover like disabilitys, extra talents and stuff, so they asked if they would have an optional one available for that...</p>
<p>what if you write another personal statement/typical college essay? will it actually hurt your chances if they don't like it?</p>
<p>I am thinking about using it to explain who happend to my math score on the SAT. I got only a 690 on my second taking because I made stupid bubbling mistake. And I am a very math and science inclined guy (math department award, AMIE (I got a 6), math team...)</p>
<p>Is this a good way to use the optional statement thing?</p>
<p>I would say yes, except...</p>
<p>They might not believe you and think you are trying to excuse yourself (I do COMPLETELY understand though, I've done that before)</p>
<p>why dont you request an SAT hand-score?</p>
<p>so we've concluded that this isn't another essay prompt they expect us to do? Cool... that's a definitely relief.</p>
<p>But what about the "what you did over the summers" question?</p>
<p>Should that be in an essay form? I was just planning on saying what I did without actually talking about any of its significance... is that the wrong way to go about things?</p>
<p>Is there a word limit to this? Should it be in essay format?</p>
<p>If you have alot of other stuff in your application I probably wouldn't do it. If you just have the other essays, that's probably fine, but if your submitting research papers, creative writing, or anything else like that, you might want to skip it.</p>
<p>SweetestSith, are you talking about the summers essay or the optional essay?</p>
<p>the optional essay - the "what else would you like us to know?"</p>
<p>Can I put my resume in the optional "what else whould you..." instead of writing an essay there?</p>
<p>I imagine that would work...Not sure why you need a resume though - everything you put on one is already listed on the application. EC's, work experience, references might be helpful (but probably only when you have letters to go with them), education is on there...</p>
<p><em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>i don't think the optional essay is an essay at all, it's basically about anything else about you that you think might help...i didn't write an essay, i wrote short paragraphs. one about why i cancelled one of my ap scores, one about how i also love to balisong (butterfly knife flipping), and i also wrote about my lifelong goal...so whatever, it's completely up to you</p>