<p>Would they accept a bulleted list?</p>
<p>I guess it will be ok, because I saw someone on this forum who wrote a bullet list and got in.</p>
<p>I would write a complete essay…
I mean, it’s another chance to show your personality and writing skills. Your ECs are already a bulleted list, so I would go with an essay.
Make it focused - write only about a few things that you did over the summer, not everything.</p>
<p>A bulleted list would be completely fine. They just want to know how you spent your summers. The more words you waste for “voice” and “tone”, the fewer there are to talk about what you’ve done. Of course, talk about certain activities and why they were meaningful if you want but I’d expect that a complete essay is riskier. I did bullets for each of my summers and it worked for me.</p>
<p>I wrote it without trying to make it unique or voicey because I barely had enough room just to explain things and use complete sentences. I guess if you’ve just done one thing that is fairly self-explanatory each summer it could be beneficial to be clever or witty, but if you do, say, three different things each summer and have to explain two of them, there really isn’t any room to waste.</p>
<p>I went with a dashed list (Common app didn’t like bullets)</p>
<p>To be on a safer side, I wrote an essay</p>