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Please tell us how you have spent the last two summers (or vacations between school years), including any jobs you have held, if not already detailed in the Common Application.
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<p>Can we list the things we've done? Or is it better to put it into essay format?</p>
<p>What are you doing for this response?</p>
<p>Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>Given the nature of the question, I wrote mine largely in the form of list, though with pretty significant detail to most activities. Personally I think there are certain sections of the application where a school just wants to gather information about you, not for you to blow its mind with your writing ability over and over again.</p>
<p>Agree^^^. You can make a list with details of each activity, or if you really do not have much, then a wordy essay might compensate ;).</p>
<p>Thanks for the help. (: Yeah, the 2500 character limit made it hard to try for an essay format anyways, haha. Even listing my activities with minimal details barely made the cut.</p>
<p>I wrote a list in essay format.</p>
<p>I wrote just a few sentences briefly listing the activities.</p>
<p>I wrote a list in essay format. I went really in depth about the activities that were most important to me and not so much on the others. In sections like this one, they really do just want to get to know a little more about the applicant. I actually had a typo in this section, and I still got in - noticed it after submitting. Basically, give an honest answer… this is not meant to be an additional essay.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone, for responding!</p>
<p>And pton15, thanks for the input as an admitted student. It’s nice getting a view from someone who succeeded in getting in, haha.</p>
<p>yeah i wrote a few sentences. not much…</p>
<p>My attached resume has descriptions, so I just wrote “See attached Activity List” and reiterated the names of my summer activities in a list.</p>
<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p>So for this question, I wrote an essay that went in-depth to one aspect of my summers that I thought was important. Granted, there are many other things that I did that summer, as my actual Princeton essay explains, but would my application be lacking if I wrote an essay for this question? Should I shoot them off an email?</p>
<p>Thank you all,
-Jeff</p>
<p>Mine were already detailed in places on the Common App, so I felt no need to be redundant. I don’t think they want a detailed essay, Jeff. I would shoot them an email to make sure.</p>
<p>Wow, I wrote like a full-blown essay minus the transitions. The info I put in the common app activities page was like a framework and I used this question to expound on the summer activities.</p>
<p>Can anyone confirm if they indeed would not want to read an essay which uses almost every character space given?</p>
<p>^ I really don’t think it matters (yes, answering a question on something I had a question on lol). Everyone’s going to interpret the question differently and answer it in a different way. I used almost every character space given.</p>
<p>Then again, my word can’t have much weight considering I’m an applicant for 2015 as well.</p>