<p>I am thinking about doing this common app prompt: "describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. what do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?" </p>
<p>main concern: I was wondering what the admissions officers at say, Columbia university in NYC would think of an applicant whose "happy place" is around nature rather than city. Is admissions more concerned with the message/meaning of the essay, or simply with the grammar/style?</p>