<p>What did you write about for your Harvard supplement (if you wrote one)?</p>
<p>I did the roommate letter</p>
<p>a topic of my choice</p>
<p>Trying to draw some pattern is a fool’s errand.</p>
<p>T26E4 is correct – but if you want to know how far you can stretch the boundaries, I would suggest that there are no boundaries. My daughter (admitted last spring) wrote a piece called “14 Ways of Looking at a Roommate,” inspired by the Wallace Stevens poem. It consisted of 14 fictional vignettes (several included dialogue) depicting highs and lows of the way she imagined life with a roommate would be. It was not an essay by any strict definition of that term, but it did manage to communicate a lot of her personality in very few words.</p>
<p>If that can fly, it’s hard to imagine something that wouldn’t.</p>