I chose the topic of “your interest”…The problem is, I just don’t have/ didn’t do any exciting things in my life.
At the time I wrote the essay, I was interested in physics (books like Hyperspace) so I just wrote about that (but not in detail, more of: why I like physics)
*Anyway, anyone care to read it and give me some feedback? It’s about a page long.
My last resort would be to talk about my parents’ divorce (which, trust me, wasn’t JUST a divorce…) or talk about my “biggest” achievement- passing 11 AP Exams (well, actually, I don’t think I’d want to write about this because I’ve heard Admissions officers HATE kids who just study and study).
Skip the parental divorce and the 11 AP Exams. Neither is a good topic. If you were excited about physics and talked about why, that could be a great essay. (It’s all about how you write it.)
I agree- many will write essays about divorces, achievements, etc- as long as your passion for physics came through in your essay, I think that’s a fantastic topic. It gives you depth, which a lot of essays do not provide.
^Even if I really don’t talk about physics? It’s more like “physics illustrates that the only thing that doesn’t exist is the concept of the impossible”…things like that…not “string theory is so exciting because…”
My daughter wrote none of her essays about something big and she was accepted to all four schools she applied to, including MIT. She had doubts just like you in the beginning, so I tried to steer her away from trying to find something big but rather to find something really small and just write about it in an interesting way. It obviously worked for her. Don’t try to find something the admission people want to read about - try to find something you want to write about instead.