<p>Would affirmative action make a bad college app essay topic? I suppose I would really need to know what I'm talking about... Good sources, anyone?
At the least, if I speak for it, they wouldn't be offended or anything, right?</p>
<p>Why didn't I write my essays earlier? <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I wouldn't suggest writing about JUST what affirmative action is and whether or not you're against it, if that's what you were planning to do. </p>
<p>But it might be an interesting read if it relates to your life/personality in a unique, hopefully empathic way. If it doesn't, don't write about it. It would be like writing about abortion (trite and overwhelmingly unoriginal)</p>
<p>I would advise against it. How would this essay fit any of Princeton's writing prompts?</p>
<p>stay awway from that topic, you' be suggesting that they are all pretentious white snobs</p>
<p>Yeah it was just the last thing that I happened to have been rambling about ... Where I am everybody hates it and thinks it's reverse discrimination so I had to preach its merits to a subbornly conservative crowd... does that change anything at all?</p>
<p>I have a feeling that it may not be a great idea, but I'm feeling a writers block or procrastinator's last minute panic, so it would help to have a topic where I could just ramble. (well I'd edit later of course, but the blank screen is freaking me out)</p>
<p>This would go with the Common App prompt "discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you". I might integrate racial stereotypes and my experiences/perspective from being Chinese.</p>
<p>p.s. didn't think i'd get a response 4 in the morning lol</p>
<p>Hmm... I take that back... guess by 4 people are all gone...</p>
<p>Thanks for you imputs though. I will be careful to avoid those pitfalls if I do write about this.</p>
<p>... or just write a short personal story about something that's happened to you or something you love to do. Writing about AA is a tricky topic. Tackling an essay like that at 4 in the morning is not a good idea...</p>
<p>strangely I do most of my writing after 2 in the morning, although talking gets extremely difficult after 1.</p>
<p>Good point though...i think i will just start writing about personal experiences and see what i get. maybe it'll come up innocently on it's own :)</p>
<p>just curious, how could you tie AA with ur asian background? its working against us?</p>
<p>Two things you should not do: Don't write about how you deserve affirmative action even though you're asian... and Don't write about the fallacies of affirmative action (too controversial)</p>
<p>On the other hand, I don't see any positives.</p>
<p>on the other hand, there are five fingers.</p>
<p>Thank you, Jack Handey.</p>
<p>:) Jack Handey is brilliant....I should have used a Jack Handey quote for my essay prompt.</p>
<p>what if i support it even though i'm asian and have to stand up for it when everyboy else disagree? it would be like an example that would show some character traits. is that worth it?</p>
<p>it wouldn't be the emphasis of my essay</p>
<p>well either way it's not gonna be in my princeton app essays... but i'm still thinking about it maybe for another school...</p>
<p>I would shy so far away from AA in any way shape or form I'd probably be out in outer space. It's just so controversial, and since a big chunk of it has to do with college admissions, I'd think it seems sort of suck-up-y, if that makes sense. And if you get a reader who is against it, you can probably kiss your admission chances straight good bye.</p>
<p>I would not write an essay about affirmative action! Affirmative Action is an extremely controversial issue, and I would not write a college essay on it whether I am against it or for it.</p>
<p>affirmative action is a very touchy subject (just read old posts to experience the disputes) so i would advise against choosing that topic</p>
<p>Also, when you start talking about a topic like that, you tend to tell less about your personal self, which is what they want to know.</p>