<p>Can I respond to any of the prompts in video form, or is only 3a allowed to be a video?</p>
<p>This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this question. Feel free to disagree with me, but I think the wording of 3a is broad enough to include the other questions… don’t you think?</p>
<p>DanAdmiss@Tufts: When we attended the Info Session during our visit to Tufts, one of the kids asked this question. The response from the presenter was that videos were for 3A alone.
My D. thought that that didn’t seem logical so she emailed the question to Admissions. This time the answer was that videos can be used for all prompts that are part of question 3.
So, it would be fair to assume that there is ambiguity in the wording and justifies why more than one student are asking this question.
I think the confusion is because the video is mentioned only in 3A, but not in 3B- E. It would be clearer if videos are mentioned as a common instruction to all questions in part 3.
Not saying this to nitpick or anything, but hoping it is useful for next time. :-)</p>
<p>I think the way we’ve built question 3a is open ended enough that you could easily fold the other questions into it. The point of anything you submit should be to give us better understanding on your sense of identity, your perspective, your intellect, your interests, or any other important pieces that reflect who you are. </p>
<p>Please note, first, that question 3a offers a LOT of opportunity outside of video, so I’m not just talking about answering with a video. However, if you choose to send something in that isn’t an essay - be it video, blog, images, whatever - it should be talking about at least the broader aspects of what I’ve laid out above, however broadly, or it’s likely what you send won’t be helpful. And if a medium other than prose allows you to do that, then it ought to fit into 3a. </p>
<p>3a is deliberately broad, so broad, I think, that you could answer any of the other question 3 options, call it an answer to 3a, and be totally within the scope of the both questions. </p>
<p>I guess, what I want to say most is: if you’re writing (or otherwise sending in) something that will truly be helpful to us in making an admissions decision, then it won’t matter which specific prompt you choose to address.</p>