For the “how will you pursue your academic and intellectual interest” question, would you advise a writer to give the most direct answer, or formulate an answer around a central theme? It’s probably important to first establish your major interests/agenda, but then should it just go on to discussing how you will utilize Penn’s resources? Is there any issue with taking a different approach, in which you make it into a sort of story exploring Penn’s options?
Yes u can be as creative as you want to, write it as a story as well but u need to make sure u cover every aspect of the question, ive just started working on mine too.