Avoid controversial issues?

<p>Again, this thread is not the place for this debate. Please control your vitriol.</p>

<p>Why not? The original poster got his answer. It’s not even vitriol—relax.</p>

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<p>Then the thread has served its purpose and should therefore die.</p>

<p>And I would consider stating that no rational argument exists to support a particular position widely held to be vitriolic and inflammatory in nature. A vehement rant is not the sole definition.</p>

<p>I’m not really that conservative, I’d rather say libertarian but I wrote my Princeton essay on a book by Milton Friedman, how I believe (correctly so) that government often causes more good than harm. I first clicked on the link thinking the topics would be much less tame but I guess I was wrong. </p>

<p>College admissions is going too far. I’ve seen people on this forum want to fake their sexual orientation because it would help in admissions. This is in the same vein.</p>

<p>^Sexual orientation doesn’t really help in admissions though, unless the person has somehow proven their orientation through volunteer work and the like. I mean, they may view it as diversity, but I doubt it’d play an important factor. I mentioned my bisexuality in one of my Stanford essays, but if it does help me at all (which it probably won’t), it’ll be because I already mentioned in my Common App essay that I wanted to help end the discrimination faced by bisexuals in particular, so it’ll probably be more convincing than if someone just mentioned their orientation in passing and without reason.</p>