<p>I treated it like a list.</p>
<p>I said “In 2011, I did blah blah blah… In 2012, I did blah blah blah”</p>
<p>My other three essays were more story-ish so I thought I’d just be straightforward. Being direct is always nice.</p>
<p>Yes, my summer essay was straightforward, that i did this then that etc etc,</p>
<p>Btw, already 1 Jan here, (12 18 AM), so Happy New Year guys !:D</p>
<p>Application submitted! Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Haven’t sent yet. Mom and I are arguing over my essays. So happy I’ll be done after this one.</p>
<p>I’ve just under 30 hours to finish my app. I’ll be spending my NYE on the Princeton application haha</p>
<p>Just submitted my app! Finished with the college application process!</p>
<p>For the summers essay, mine was really short because I didn’t have a lot of activities, but I did things that were important to me, so yeah.</p>
<p>DONE! Feels good!</p>
<p>@stupiddorkyidiot, I just treated mine like a list. I was out of creative ideas haha. I didn’t use up most of the available characters which kind of worries me but oh well.</p>
<p>lucya01995, same here. I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>Well, my summer essay too was basically a list with three philosophical lines in the end! And I used up most of the space (~50 characters left). </p>
<p>That said, the summer essay is the only one I didn’t feel good about!!</p>
<p>Anyone willing to share how long their essay is? </p>
<p>I chose prompt 4 (use a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years) so I could re-use an essay I had previously written, but if I don’t amend it, it will be about 680 words. The length falls within the 5000 character maximum, but I was wondering if it is worth shortening.</p>
<p>Mine was 501 words. I wrote about who influences me most.</p>
<p>Just finalized my application and sent it off! woohoo! that was my last application that required effort. One easy safety school application and I’m done with all my applications!</p>
<p>^I dont remember my wordcount but it was around ~2600 characters iirc.
Are your recs all in? :o</p>
<p>@penn17:</p>
<p>For prompt 4, how did you recall which quote was your favorite?</p>
<p>@IvyLeague2020 she probably looked at her print preview of her supplement</p>
<p>@penn17, Mine was roughly 520 (including the quote) words. I think 680 is too much (including the quote), and probably needs to be cut down.</p>
<p>Is anyone having trouble registering for the Princeton Application Tracking System? I submitted my app only yesterday so I don’t know if that has anything to do with it.</p>
<p>I have the same problem. It is because their system hasn’t registered us yet.</p>
<p>Wait for the email.</p>
<p>Submitted, but I’m totally regretting the two adjectives I put down in the short answer questions. It’s going to be a long three months :(</p>
<p>Also, my summer “essay” was literally a sentence. Maybe a long run on sentence, but still.</p>
<p>So you have to write an essay about all of your high school summers and what you did during the summers?</p>