Question about the third tufts supplement

DanAdmiss_Tufts
Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:48:02 +0000

I think the way we’ve built question 3a is open ended enough that you could easily fold the other questions into it. The point of anything you submit should be to give us better understanding on your sense of identity, your perspective, your intellect, your interests, or any other important pieces that reflect who you are.

Please note, first, that question 3a offers a LOT of opportunity outside of video, so I’m not just talking about answering with a video. However, if you choose to send something in that isn’t an essay - be it video, blog, images, whatever - it should be talking about at least the broader aspects of what I’ve laid out above, however broadly, or it’s likely what you send won’t be helpful. And if a medium other than prose allows you to do that, then it ought to fit into 3a.

3a is deliberately broad, so broad, I think, that you could answer any of the other question 3 options, call it an answer to 3a, and be totally within the scope of the both questions.

I guess, what I want to say most is: if you’re writing (or otherwise sending in) something that will truly be helpful to us in making an admissions decision, then it won’t matter which specific prompt you choose to address.