<p>is it okay if we choose to do our own topic? or is that something that's just there, but nobody ever uses or is frowned upon for using?</p>
<p>I know a kid who wrote a STELLAR "pick your own" essay and was accepted to loads of selective colleges. All of the suggested topics just beg for cliche responses, I think. However, I've never been much of a gambler, so I'm just going to stick to the ones they provide. If I was a more creative writer I would probably go against the grain :)</p>
<p>i'm just that cool ;)</p>
<p>All my rough drafts so far fall under "choose your own topic." Like czechitout said, the suggested topics seem very cliche. And as a writer, I try to stay as far out of the box as I can.</p>
<p>I wrote the "choose your own topic" so I could write the same essay for every school. I guess it was a good one since I was accepted everywhere I applied. I know some others who did this, so if you want to, go for it.</p>
<p>the ones given are things you would write in middle school...unless you really do something extravagant with it</p>