Hello there! On the Princeton application it says:
Please attach a document if you wish to provide details of circumstances or qualifications not reflected in the application.
Is this an okay place to upload a resume? Or would it be for, say, someone who had a rough patch in their lives and their grades dipped so they need to explain it?
Thanks! And good luck to everyone applying #:-S
I suppose you should do so only if your resume doesn’t repeat information already available on the rest of your application. Of course, I don’t know exactly so take my advice with a grain of salt.
The prompt should read: “Speak now or forever hold your piece.” (Assuming that it is “piece” as in "piece of information & not “peace” even though that would work as well.)
The instruction is pretty much self-explanatory. You can attach any document of significance (circumstances or qualifications) that are NOT reflected elsewhere in your application. There are no rules here. It leaves up to you to interpret the circumstances or qualifications not reflected elsewhere in your application.
I’d accentuate that the addendum should be: 1) significant; 2) not repeated elsewhere in the application.
In my son’s case, he attached his resume with a significant list of musical accomplishments that were not reflected elsewhere in his application. What I meant by “significant” here is no local or minor accomplishments. He was careful to only list his accomplishments in state, national and international levels. Another way to ask what is “significant” is to ask yourself, “if I were reading this addendum as a member of the Princeton adcom, would the info catch my attention as important or just add to my stress of having to go through so many other documents?”