<p>These are the UC prompts:
"Describe world you come from for example, your family, community or school and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations."</p>
<p>"Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?</p>
<p>In the first essay, I plan to talk about how the recession has pretty much destroyed my family. My parents are divorced and I was going to talk about how my mother became severely depressed. This resulted in her physically abusing my brother and I. I was going to continue with how my brother left us to go live with my wealthy father due to the abuse and how I remained in poverty with my mother. However, I love my mother and don't want the state to take lawful actions against her. So, is this essay confidential at all? I was also wondering if this topic is too cliched? I know I'm not the only family suffering from the recession and I don't want to just spark up pity.</p>
<p>For the second prompt, I wanted to talk about Sailing which has been a hobby for me since I was literally a baby. So does a hobby fit under the essay? Additionally, one of the common app prompts says this:</p>
<p>"Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you."</p>
<p>Does the second UC prompt fit under this (if I talk about sailing) or do I classify it under the Topic of my choice category?</p>