<p>Since I figure there will be a good amount of people asking questions about the supplement, we should have a thread about them.</p>
<p>I’ll start with mine.</p>
<p>For the question: “What were your favorite events (e.g., performances, exhibits, sporting events, etc.) this past year?”</p>
<p>Do they mean events in general or specific ones you went to?</p>
<p>^since they give examples of categories, i believe they mean specific.
i.e. i gave the name of a competition i went to and the name of the football team whose game i went to</p>
<p>This is a noob question, but what qualifies as 4 lines or less? When I type everything out in Word my responses are 4 lines and are under the maximum characters, but when I copy it into the common app. it shows up as more than 4 lines.</p>
<p>Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>the supplement is exactly the same as last year (i just checked)</p>
<p>if you are referring to the short answer, it means 4 lines in the text box (which is less than 2 lines on the print preview) if you look at the print preview, the physical document says 2 lines (the equivalent of 4 lines in the text box)</p>
<p>Do you have to answer all of the 7 profile questions and the 3 short essays? or do you like pick a few?</p>
<p>you must answer everything.
basically the only thing that is optional in the supplement is the legacy information</p>
<p>Thank you. Also, is there room for humor? or will they think i’m being obnoxious or something?</p>
<p>Depends on how good it is. If you’re known as a naturally funny person (keyword known, it doesn’t count if just you think you’re funny), then you could put it. If you force it then it will be seen as obnoxious.</p>
<p>they say they don’t mind incomplete sentences but would this look really bad?</p>
<p>book-xxxx, movie-xxxx, author-xxxx, singer-xxxx</p>
<p>“How did you spend your last two summers?”</p>
<p>Does that include this summer? as in, are they expecting us to answer in the fall? or do they want 2008+09</p>
<p>@cst11: they aren’t picky with the format.
my list was in the format of: x (book), y (movie), z (author)
that format won’t be a problem
i think 2 of mine were complete sentences and the rest weren’t</p>
<p>@gtlane: for you that would refer to summer 2009 and 2010 (they assume you are completing this in the Fall)</p>
<p>@cst11: they aren’t picky with the format.
my list was in the format of: x (book), y (movie), z (author)
that format won’t be a problem
i think 2 of mine were complete sentences and the rest weren’t</p>
<p>@gtlane: for you that would refer to summer 2009 and 2010 (they assume you are completing this in the Fall)</p>
<p>Can I swap out “author” for “photographer”? There’s a huge overlap in “books” and “authors” IMO…</p>
<p>I can’t access the common app at the moment. Could someone do me the favor of posting the supplemental essay questions here? Thanks!</p>
<p>@nikkor: if they left it open like the favorite events question, i would say yes.
but they specified, so maybe not?</p>
<p>it’s your choice. it could be seen as showing more of yourself but i don’t know if they would care that your answer wasn’t from the question</p>
<p>This isn’t a question, but NJDS, you are very helpful :)</p>
<p>i won’t help with the application itself, but i’m glad to help to clear up any confusion/questions :)</p>
<p>[Essays</a> : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/freshman/essays.html]Essays”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/application/freshman/essays.html)</p>
<p>NJDS, thank you so much!</p>
<p>Did you write an explanation after the 5 adjectives? Cause that’s what I’m doing now, and there is no way I can make it four lines or less.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>^I think the idea was to select the adjectives with enough care and precision such that no further explanation would be needed. That was the way I interpreted that question.</p>