<p>If you sent in the list of books you've read in high school, how many did you have on your list?</p>
<p>I'm thinking of sending one in, but I don't think my list would be long enough.</p>
<p>About 25, although I'm considering writing an essay instead.</p>
<p>25 for your entire high school career, or just in the past year?</p>
<p>The Harvard application asks this? thx</p>
<p>supplement- it's optional</p>
<p>It's the optional essay component, although it wouldn't be much of an essay.</p>
<p>I recommend 42</p>
<p>or some other number with a literary connection.</p>
<p>In the past year, that's one of the suggested prompts. I might change it to books which influenced me the most or something.</p>
<p>The length of the list won't matter at all. If you wrote an amazing essay that was about one book, that would be fine.</p>
<p>in my application (im going to be a harvard freshman) my supplemental essay had nothing to do with books
i wrote about something completely different - what it was like to attend a high school where my father was the principal</p>
<p>"what it was like to attend a high school where my father was the principal"</p>
<p>O_o</p>
<p>So what was it like?</p>
<p>not bad, it was harder when i was a freshman
but i got really involved with sports and met a ton of people in the school (i went to a public school in rural massachusetts) and then people realized i wasn't a nerd or a prude or anything like that
when my dad retired at the end of my junior year i was really comfortable with him being there
it was really funny b/c people in my school would say "i can't believe ur the principal's daughter"
it didnt help out in the dating world thou haha</p>