Between two essays...?

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<p>So, for the Common App, I wrote one essay for the topic of local or international concern, and I write about the war in Uganda and how I've helped out a lot with Invisible Children to support the rebuilding of schools and stuff there. In my mind, its a relatively moving essay, because it talks about how 100,000s of kids are missing/dead in Uganda, and we won't do ANYTHING, but when one kid goes missing in the US, its all over the news.</p>

<p>MY SECOND ESSAY IDEA would be the open ended essay, and I would write about how certain things that have happened to me, I thought that they were HORRIBLE at the time, and now i've realized that they have really helped me. It would basically be about growing up.... and include things like: having to buy my own car, taking ap bio even though I HATED science (now I want to go pre-med), being a total dork (along with all of my friends), being really uncool in middle school... Would this essay be totally lame? </p>

<p>Which essay would be better?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>The one you can write so that it is personal and revealing. Which one will tell the adcoms more about you? This can be very tricky to do with the “local or international concern” topic.</p>

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<p>mm… that’s true. thanks, glasses. I’ll have to write the other one and see how it turns out. thanks!</p>

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<p>i like the second one - it’s more personal and you can go way more passionate with it. </p>

<p>The first sounds a little bit like you’re trying to impress admissions with comm serv work in Uganda - which a lot of people do, so it may not seem as personal or as truthful.</p>