<p>I did Any topic, About yourself, and Significant achievement/activities thing. And I also did the "What Else..." I wrote an essay about another activity for that.</p>
<p>EncomiumII, that's not a bad thing. I didn't spend that much time on mine, though I probably should have. For the 250 word ones, I think I spent...half an hour each =/</p>
<p>lol it's probably a good thing to do the optional after your official essays. You can probably make the optional work for one of the real ones though, right?</p>
<p>I used the Common App, so I only had to do two 250 word essays. (Although for the Common App, I also chose the open topic option.) For my Princeton essays, I wrote one any topic and one year off essay.</p>
<p>For those of you that wrote year off, what did you write about? I talked about how I'd use it to go to France and become fluent.</p>
<p>Significant person - 250
Greatest satisfaction - 250
Tell us anything - 500 (still working on this one! writers block is settling in and I can't finish it! ahhhh)</p>