common app essay topic help please!!

<p>ok, so ive been going back and forth with essay topics
this is one of them</p>

<p>for the significant experience essay or i can put it under choice of your topic</p>

<p>about me failing my first test. the effect it had on me and how i grew from it
OR
going to a clothing drive and how it effected me</p>

<p>which is better</p>

<p>I don’t like the first one only because it seems very ‘done’. Nearly every student has failed a test, or did poorly, and used that as a motivation to study harder next time. Unless you can offer a very different perspective, it doesn’t really say anything about you.</p>

<p>As for the second, have you truly gotten involved in clothes-drive related activities after visiting one? Like your first topic, it could be a little overdone. If it just made you more aware of the suffering out there and how lucky you are and how we often take life for granted blah blah, it’s going to be the same as thousands of other essays.</p>