<li><p>when responding to one of the three prompts for the freshman essay (the autobiography, the risk, or the first experience), how should you identify which prompt you chose? should i put a number 1 at the beginning of my essay, as i did at the beginning of this question? or should i just assume they’ll be able to figure it out?</p></li>
<li><p>one of the teachers who is submitting a recommendation for me is acquainted with the faculty director of penn’s kelly writers house. i’m a writer, and i hope to become well acquainted with the writers house if i get in to penn. would it be proper to contact the director with some of my work, explaining that i learned of him through my teacher? would this help my app out at all, or would it just be kind of obnoxious to bother the guy?</p></li>
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<p>thanks</p>