Common App essay prompt

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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I’m interested in this one:
Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma-anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.

I have two questions:

  1. Can one of my problems be…say…a disease? Say this disease had an impact on my life. Could I write about that?
  2. When they talk about steps to be taken to identify a solution, do I have to write on how I think its effects can be reduced/cured? Do I have to write something…I dunno…science-y?
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Bump.

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I think that is an amazing idea! It is unique and definitely outside the box

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Thanks!