I’m trying to finalize a topic for the general essay. Do you think writing about my experience as a URM or my interest in the sciences would be more interesting? I feel like race is cliché but I’m not sure if science is interesting enough
If you have a good story (or two), then yes. A general or habitual discussion of those experiences won’t be very interesting or helpful.
You being interested in science seems like a very broad topic for a college essay. If you can talk about couple of interesting anecdotes from your experience with science and write it in an engaging way, then it might make for a good essay…