<p>Remember it’s not the essay topic but your “voice” that comes from it. Read this for help</p>
<p>[Essays</a>, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html]Essays”>http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html)</p>
<p>You mention “most of my essays”. Aren’t you just recycling the same essay for multiple schools? Why are you writing so many versions?</p>
<p>For one of my essays, I wrote about the shame I felt after “outing” one of my best friends and what I undertook to repair our friendship. It wasn’t world-altering but sincere and very meaningful for me when I was seventeen. I’ve re-read it since and it still holds up…</p>