<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>Well, I am a bit confused about the Pton summer short take. Am I really supposed to write a full blown essay or should I just do a bullet point list of things i did over the summer. Pton is my top choice school so I really dont want to mess this up!</p>
<p>THANKS,
Robbie</p>
<p>I have had people tell me that anything works. It should be an essay, but a bulleted list <em>might</em> work.</p>
<p>first, i listed a series of things i did over the summer
but then, seeing how many characters were available, i wrote a description.</p>
<p>I wrote a description of my activities, but it’s very bare bones (i.e. I wasn’t trying to be creative, I just described in full sentences). It’s not considered one of their essays, so it shouldn’t be an “essay” correct? I didn’t link together my two summers, for example (they’re in two different paragraphs)</p>
<p>I didn’t do it like an essay.I just elaborated on what I’ve been doing without complicating it or anything.</p>
<p>I wrote an essay but I think anything’s fine.</p>
<p>My friend and I were both accepted. I wrote an essay, he wrote a detailed list of his summers.</p>
<p>I wrote what would be the “body paragraphs” of an essay i.e. with no introduction or conclusion.</p>
<p>When I did it a couple years ago, I wrote two paragraphs, one for each summer. </p>
<p>“The summer of blah blah, I went to blah blah to participate in blah blah in order to help blah blah. After the blah week program was over, I traveled with my family to blah blah to visit relatives”</p>
<p>See right now my essay is 6 characters short of the max…is that too long?</p>
<p>If you’re making the adcom trudge through words that really aren’t all that important, yes. However, if you just happened to be very busy over the summers and the descriptions that you wrote are enriching and will give a better impression of the activities you did, then it should be okay.</p>
<p>I would steer away from long descriptions of summer activities that you may have already discussed in detail in an essay.</p>
<p>Overall though, I think it’s not a big deal how you write it.</p>
<p>Princeton gives us 3500 characters to describe our last two summers, so are they expecting us to use that many? Would it be acceptable to only write about 200 words (around 1400 characters)?</p>
<p>Yeah, my friend used bullet points, therefore he only had 1200 or so characters. He’s now at Princeton and, apparently, it was his essays that got him in. I don’t exactly know how he knows, but I think our counselor talked to Princeton or something.</p>
<p>My son, who was accepted to Princeton last year, wrote 2 sentences, one for each summer. The whole thing was less than 50 words.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s awesome. Thanks!</p>