<p>"Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you"</p>
<p>This is one of the common application essay topics, and I wanted to get a head start on it. I was wondering if anyone could help me out.
I wanted to write about how I started a Science Team at my school. So basically the back story is that my school doesn't have a science team, and we go annually to a Science Competition, and get our butts handed to us on a plate. Recently, it was by a high school by the name of Hunter College (yeah I know), and they were all a year or two younger than us. It's not like we're dumb, we were actually pretty impressive, but they were genetically modified (just kidding). After that, I decided to start a Science Team at my school, and we had our first meeting yesterday. I thought it was going to be a small thing with 5 or 6 people, but 13 people ended up coming, and there were 3 or 4 additionally that were busy. I have a feeling that this team can go places, and hopefully put my high school on the map for science.
Also, my high school is insanely liberal arts oriented, and although our math team does well, we recently spent $37 million on a new auditorium, and our class presidents are all theater nuts. I felt like this was a waste of money, and this is partially why I made this team.
Could this be a viable topic? It explains how I'm tenacious, I take the initiative, I'm proactive, and overall willing to put my thought into action.
Please give me any feedback that you can think of. Thank you for reading.</p>
<p>My initial reaction is wondering whether you will have enough results from your efforts by the time you need to write your essay. If you just had your first meeting, and if school is almost out for you for the year, then you won’t really know the result of your efforts until next school year. </p>
<p>Different schools have different calendars - we are done for the year, but I know other schools go until the end of June. When is your annual science competition?</p>
<p>In my opinion just having the idea and having one meeting is not enough for an essay. However, if you have time to form a team and compete next year before you need to write the essay, it might work.</p>
<p>Also be careful about making it an us vs them, science vs theater/liberal arts competition. I would hope you would want to make your school, which is evidently already strong in the arts, also a strong competitor in science. Calling a new school auditorium a waste of money and a motivation for creating the science team may result in coming across as intolerant in your essay. You are answering the prompt of your personal/local concern as: your school doesn’t do well in science competitions because they care too much about theater and wasted money on an auditorium. Is that the message you want to convey?</p>
<p>I think the best essays aren’t necessarily about some momentous achievement. Instead, it should tell a story of who you are as a person, what makes you interesting, and ultimately convinces the admissions committee that they want you to be on their campus as a contributing member of their college community.</p>