Discuss some issue of local, national, or international concern and its importance to

College Essays
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<p>Would it be wise to talk about cigarettes as a personal/global issue? I pretty much wanted to talk about how growing up in a family where smoking is common has affected me, and that restrictions should be made to prevent death among youths. Will it sound too cliche?</p>

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<p>If this is for the Common App, they’re not using that prompt anymore. </p>

<p>Otherwise, I think this essay would probably end up being more about smoking than you, and (depending on how you write it) it might come across like you’re making a really big deal out of nothing.</p>

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<p>Teen smoking is certainly a national and likely a global issue, and a personal one to you, so it fulfills the prompt as a topic. But what hh says, see the new CA prompts:
<a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/EssayAnnouncementFinal.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadForms/2013/EssayAnnouncementFinal.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thnks for the feedbacks, but its not for the common app, I think i’ll give it a shot</p>