Question 6 of optional supp essay?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Tufts University
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<p>I'm confused about this prompt:</p>

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<li>a. Use an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper to create something. You can blueprint your future home, create a new product, draw a cartoon strip, design a costume or a theatrical set, compose a score, or do something entirely different. Let your imagination wander.</li>
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<p>Is this asking you to draw on an A4 paper (and what? mail it to em) or to describe in words the hypothetical drawing that will you draw on an A4 paper? In the online Common App, I also saw one blank, obviously for typing, below the prompt so it must be in words then?</p>

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<p>I think they want a drawing on paper. Presumably you mail it in.</p>

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<p>You can do, seriously, ANYTHING with that page.</p>

<p>ANYTHING. We do not have mental guidelines in place for what we want to see you do with OE6 (optional essay 6), and part of the fun in reading them is seeing what you can come up with. </p>

<p>But, since what gets done rarely involves straight text, you mostly have to mail it in.</p>

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<p>So are we restricted to a single sheet? I’m planning to cut something out and want to back it with cardboard or another sheet because I’m afraid it’d be rather flimsy otherwise.</p>

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<p>^^^^^^^^^</p>

<p>What’s important is that you remain true to the spirit of the question. I think using some cardboard as reinforcement sounds fine.</p>

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<p>I’m planning on doing the 6a question. Do I have to write an essay IN ADDITION to what I do on the piece of paper?</p>

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<p>^You certainly don’t have to, and if you do think what you do needs some sort of explanation I’d keep it short.</p>

<p>I wish I was applying - I know exactly what I’d do. :)</p>

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<p>So, if you do the option 6 a, is the consensus that you mail it in? How would I go about doing that i.e. What would I include with the paper when I mail it?</p>

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<p>^Your name and enough identifying info (birthday, Soc Sec # or whatever) to be confident that they’ll attach it to the right application. If it needs one, a title or short explanation.</p>

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<p>mathmom…
what would you do?</p>

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<p>An old math trick. You don’t actually need a full sheet of paper. You can do it with something as small as an index card. You are asked to make a hole big enough in it that you can step through it.</p>

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<p>this it? [ZOOM</a> . activities . games . Step Through Hole | PBS Kids](<a href=“ZOOM”>ZOOM)</p>

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<p>^Yes that’s the one.</p>