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So I wrote my common app essay on my transition from being a camper to a camp counselor and how camp and those people have impacted my life.

But Princeton asks about my last 2 summers… which have all been spent at camp. CRAP!! Do you think if I focus more on the “working and training” part of my job and the research project I did while at camp, it won’t be too repetitive?

Normally, I would just change my common app essay to something different, but I think shrinking down my 650-word essay into 150 words would filter out a lot of what camp really means to me.

What do I do?

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Perhaps recall a specific event or two from your camp experiences; be introspective and discuss what you have learned from these, and how these have helped YOU to mature, or to add to your perspectives of the world, for example. The details of the working, training and research project should not be the emphasis, but what you might have learned from these are. Do not repeat what you have already said elsewhere in the application. Use every precious word space judiciously.