<p>I cant decide which one is better, please help?
1.Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>2.Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?</p>
<p>I think you’re better off writing the second essay. You get the opportunity to talk more about how you’ve grown in spite of your apparent character flaws. By telling you “story” that identifies with who you are, you try to avoid highlighting problems with you personally and instead go at outlining how a collection of experiences are essential to who you are (and there’s nothing wrong with that either), but readers get a better sense of how you’ve changed - through a specific incident, not a plethora of different variables and factors that have become a part of you.</p>
<p>Thanks man, I actually wrote an essay for each prompt.Can you review atleast one :o?</p>
<p>I can PM anyone, I dont care who reads it.</p>
<p>I also think the second one is a better choice, but if you feel strongly about the first one you may have written it better. You can pm if you’d like, but at the end you’d probably be the best judge of which one better portrays you.</p>
<p>Honestly it depends on the subjects. If your background contains a powerful experience/situation that you feel shaped who you are today, it can be just as poignant as an essay about failure. If your failure is something that really changed you for the better, then it can be a strong topic as well. One prompt or another isn’t better, it’s the topics you find from the prompts. </p>
<p>I’d be happy to read them… although I’m not quite at the 15 post mark for PMs. Should get there today. :P</p>
<p>what is PM?</p>
<p>@jerrryhyz PM means private message. (Instead of posting something publicly).</p>