Putting a picture in my essay

<p>Would it be appropriate to paste a photo at the bottom of my essay showing a theme in my essay? I wrote about revisiting childhood memories and I want to put a picture of me playing with my cousin.</p>

<p>i dont see how it would show up, unless you mail it in, but i’d think it would be inappropriate either way</p>

<p>I put a picture in mine. My essay was about a fundraiser I did for Haiti, so I included a picture of a Haitian boy eating the peanut butter donated through my fundraiser. If it’s appropriate then, I say, why not???
@haloshots- my picture shows up on the print preview, so I’m assuming it’ll show up on the actual application.</p>

<p>i’m planning on doing that too but on Commonapp it says the document can’t exceed 500 KB and the picture takes it up to 1200 KB :(</p>

<p>ihopeillgetin, you could decrease the resolution of the pic. It’ll reduce your file size.</p>

<p>Ok, so I didnt put a pic in my essay. Is that a bad thing? Will it hurt me a lot? I just wrote an essay and I think it turned out quite well. I chose the first topic about a person and so I easily could have pasted a pic, but I didn’t. Starting to get worried after reading this post…</p>

<p>Obviously you’ll get rejected because you didn’t put a picture in your essay.</p>

<p>On the other hand, if you paste a picture in your essay you’ll probably go over the word limit by 1100 words or so.</p>

<p>Catch-22, if you ask me. It’s actually a tricky puzzle that you must solve if you want to get into Princeton.</p>

<p>^LOL. @referee: I hope you’re kidding. If not, you made me smile anyway.</p>

<p>Thanks for the sarcasm, people! I was actually serious at the time, but now I feel like I’ll be okay. ^No, YOU made me smile.</p>