<p>Does it matter where in the essay we incorporate the quote? Princeton's prompt says to use it as a jumping point but I feel more comfortable putting it in near the end as a concluding sort of thing...</p>
<p>I'm basically using my commonapp essay for this as it fits perfectly and I'll sub in something different for the commonapp. So I guess I'm just too lazy to go back to my commonapp essay and edit it significantly to fit the quote in at the beginning. Does this matter?</p>
<p>I didn’t even use the quote in my essay. I just took the whole “jumping off point” thing to mean that your essay should relate to the quote. So I never actually restated the quote, but I did maintain its ideas as themes in my essay. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter how you incorporate it. They don’t really care, I don’t think. I mean, they aren’t testing you on how well you can incorporate quotes. Yes, they want to make sure you can write well, but the real point is to get to know you as a person. So write the essay in whichever way will best accomplish that goal.</p>