<p>Did you guys write an actual essay in response to the prompt, or did you just answer the question directly ("I took classes at community college/traveled to Africa/whatever")?</p>
<p>I have this essay written, but I don't want to burst into essay if they just want a plainspoken answer.</p>
<p>Wondering the same thing here… straightforward laundry list, or a more personal, meaningful essay?</p>
<p>Well, the space provided doesn’t seem to fit an essay</p>
<p>ummmm i think u r supposed to answer the question directly like saying how u spent the summer and i think there should be details included
cause it does say “if not already detailed in the common app”
not so essay like but include details hehe
at least that’s how i wrote it and i already submitted it like that</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they just want a non-essay response.</p>
<p>On the Princeton website, they consider there to be three essays on the app
<p>Whoops. Already turned mine in last night, and I wrote it in essay response. Fortunately, the essay was very straightforward and not too artistic. Hopefully they don’t mind.</p>
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<p>Does that mean just to do a bullet-point list, or to use paragraph form but make it simple and direct?</p>
<p>@christiansoldier: I wrote an essay-type account as well. I mean they give you 2500 characters, so it seemed to me like an essay was acceptable. Worst comes to worst, we answered their question in a much more regimented way, which can’t really hurt us. I hope.</p>
<p>I didn’t do that section because I did the “what have you been doing if you’ve been out of high school…” bit but I did it in sentence form just in a paragraph. I don’t think that really matters, they just want to hear what you did, as opposed to a piece of creative writing.</p>
<p>I wrote a paragraph for each summer. I didn’t try to write it like one of the main essays - I basically wrote exactly what I did, which was pretty much just doing whatever I felt like doing. I didn’t have “productive” summers like a lot of people have.
I’m a freshman now, just so you know.
Tell them what you did, that’s all there is to it. They just want to get to know you better. They want to see a person in the application.</p>
<p>hi… honestly my last two summers were spent hanging out with my friends and doing ridiculous amounts of summer work assignments. one of the summers i went on vacation to the country where i was born to see family for about a month but thats it. </p>
<p>so if princetons looking for basically a list in paragraph form then i have no idea what to write about. my summers were in no way “productive”, no summer programs, community service, etc. how did you word it without seeming like an underachiever? lol
by the way they “encourage” submitting the supplement by dec 15…THREE DAYS FROM NOW…help???</p>