Hello!
So, I’ve been treating all of my writing supplements as places to write essays. Writing is my strong suit, and I find each prompt actually really fun to work with; all of my supplements are mini creative writing pieces.
All of them. As in, every piece of the Princeton and Brown supplements, I’m writing essays (within the word limit, of course). I thought this was what I was supposed to do, but it seems many people are using them more to write a few sentences about an activity, and nothing else.
I don’t particularly want to NOT write the essays - they’re more or less the only part of this Common App that I’m enjoying - but is this going to hurt me? Or do admissions officers not care how you interpret what they’re asking? Will they even bother reading my pieces?
The only thing bad would be if your essays are poorly written. Triple and quadruple check them for excellent writing. Have some outside readers make sure that you are saying what you think you are. best of luck
I think as long as you are answering the prompt and staying within the word count, you should be fine!