<p>Thank you for taking the time to read this!!! </p>
<p>So I am writing an autobiographical essay (1500 to 2000 words) for admissions and was thinking about writing the first paragraph (only 4 or 5 sentences) in poem form What do you think? Should I do it??</p>
<p>I wouldn’t, but I am not exactly poetically inclined</p>
<p>It can work, but it sounds like a bit of a gimmick. If the poem looses its charm on the second reading, delete and start over with prose.</p>
<p>Also, do you mean the 1500 character essay? I’m confused as to what this is for.</p>
<p>Hey guys!! Thank you for the advice!! 
I feel like it could either go very well OR very bad… I mean, I want to do it because it would be different, but I still need to make it transition into the rest of the essay… </p>
<p>@Johnny… Me neither! Well, I do like to write (once in a while) poetry, free verse, short stories, etc… and a couple of the pieces I have written (articles) have made it to the media. However, these articles were all about the same subject. I want to prove that I can write about other things as well… Plus English is not my first language, and in some way the first paragraph of the essay describes social conditons (sociology is one of my majors)… But it is still risky…
@Glass… The essay is for GS’s Columbia, that’s why it is so long, versus the “Why Columbia?” essays and the listing of what you like to read, etc. I like it that they give you more words, less limits, more freedom, but there is not Common Application You are right, I just changed it to prose… it helps on the transition into the rest of the work</p>