<p>If I want to write about a research thing I did over the summer for my Intellectual vitality essay should I not talk about it that much in the part where it asks what I did for my last two summers. Is the letter to your roommate supposed to be informal, someone told me that’s what they said at an info session.</p>
<p>The last summer things is a very short profile question (under 300 characters) so it doesn’t really matter if you mention it there as well as long as you describe it pretty well in your supplemental essay.</p>
<p>I took the roommate essay to not actually be a note, but something(s) that your roommate and the admissions staff can get to know about you. So pretty much another essay describing something(s) about yourself, but not actually a note to a roommate.</p>