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Old 08-07-2007, 01:11 AM   #1
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Thoughts on mentioning love in short essays?

For the Princeton "What did you do two summers ago?" short answer, I want to use about 75 words of a 150ish words response to mention a crush one summer I had and how it motivated me to become a much more extroverted person.

On one hand:
~It seems original
~Shows I'm not afraid to share personal anecdotes
~Makes me more than an SAT score?

On the other:
~Might be a really common response?
~I might sound like just another angsty teen

Thoughts?
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Old 08-07-2007, 11:55 AM   #2
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if you stay away from sex it should be fine. no weird, gory details, cuz i know for a fact adcoms HATE those.

if you can write about it originally, and provided that its not something people will be bored of because THEY'VE been through same thing 4 billion times and have heard about similar experiences from 4 billion other people...
then yeah, try it.
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