Dark topics for Stanford's what matters essay?

College Essays
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<p>Recently, I completed my essay for the Stanford prompt, "What matters to you and why". When I looked over my essay, I thought It was very good, but also very dark at times. I wrote about the importance of existentialism, and how I've used it to apply meaning to my life. There is a focus on a period of my life when I had struggled with nihilism (a belief that life has no meaning or significance), and became very depressed. I also bring up my suicidal urges during this time. Overall, the essay provides incite on difficult times I experienced, but also how I eventually found peace in the fact that I am in control of my life and can apply meaning to it as I see fit. The conclusion is very inspirational, and makes it clear that I am now a very positive and happy person.</p>

<p>My main question is, should I be concerned about submitting an essay of this nature? If so, what topics should I exclude to make the essay submit-able, if it is at all? (I will post paragraphs/snippets of the essay upon request)</p>

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<p>Don’t make it seem like you’d be a liability to them. But otherwise it’s probably okay.
I wrote about why superficiality matters to me.</p>

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<p>incite s/b insight</p>

<p>This sounds pretty iffy to me. I will read it and give an opinion if you like. It might be a little too personal in an inappropriate way, for the task at hand of applying for college. My feeling is that you never want to go to the suicidal thoughts topic. But I haven’t read it.</p>