<p>I’m trying to write my supplemental Essay, but I don’t know how to start. I’m not exacly sure how to answer the question. Infact, I’m not sure if I understand what the question is asking. It says, “We are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts.” I want to respond to this excerpt:
" Young as she is, the stuff
Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:
I wish her a lucky passage. "
From The Writer by Richard Wilbur, Amherst Class of 1942, 1987 Poet Laureate of the United States </p>
<p>I think this is the most relevant to my situation because I want to write an essay demonstrating how I have overcome many obstacles. But I don’t understand what they want applicants to do with the except. Should I put it in the essay and explain why it relates to me or should I just write about an experience and not mention the quote.</p>
<p>Can some other applicants help me an give me some advice on how to approach this question and other questions like it?</p>
<p>I applied Princeton ED and they also had essays based off of quotes.
I wasn't sure also, but on the one I sent into Princeton, I just wrote the essay as if that were the prompt, and I didn't actually include the quote anywhere.
I kind of incorporated snippets of it here and there though.</p>
<p>Stringtheory I just got in ED by responding to the quote "only in the mystery novel are we presented with final, unquestionable solutions" and I just told of my experiences only making indirect references to the quote. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>It's not what you say, but what your essay says about YOU. Make yourself shine in it. Think of the quote merely as a jumping off point, and go from there.</p>
<p>Try to imagine the lines are written by a loving father, who understands that the child will be on his/her own one day. Tony Marx actually recited the poem to 2010 parents during move in day.</p>
<p>I wouldn't imagine that you overcame your obstacles without parental supports, unless that is an obstacle in itself. So, bringing in your parents in your assay will be sufficient.</p>