So I’m new to this forum so I just wanna start off by saying sup to y’all.
Anyways, I have a strong interest in psychology and have some extracurriculars relating to it. However, for my essay I want to write about my passion for it, but I don’t know if what I’m thinking of is a good choice. So I really got interested in psych in my 10th grade AP Psych class, where the teacher scared the the living bejesus out of everyone. He would randomly put people on the spot by making them create questions based on random google images, yell random things in class, and flip desks. I don’t know if I should start out my essay with a little anecdote from his class and then continue to discuss my interest about human behavior and so on and so forth. Another option I was considering was actually writing about Family Feud and my family’s game night. So our family watches Family Feud all the time, and so we brought the game into our house. I would host all the games and it’d get pretty exciting. However, after Family Feud I would always ask my family a bunch of riddles and brain teasers which was pretty fun. Is this a viable essay topic to write about? I want to relate this game night back into my passion about behavioral psychology and how these games made me question how people’s mind and behavior worked when put on the spot. These topics might be going in the wrong direction, but I would appreciate any feedback. Hope y’all having a great summer!
I’d be interested in reading about a Family Feud game night as a starting point to learn about a kid applying to my school. Yes, I’m intrigued. Make it into a great essay that will make the readers want to have you around.
The family game night topic has a lot of potential!
The “I developed an interest in abnormal psychology because my teacher was a lunatic” topic is kind of a disaster waiting to happen, I’m afraid.
The family-centric topic sheds much more light on who you are, which is the whole point. And really, you don’t have to be heavy-handed about tying in your interest in psychology. If it flows naturally, fine, but no need to force it. Psych is a pretty mainstream major plan that really doesn’t require a lot of justification. (And lots of aspiring psych majors discover in college that they really like other social sciences that weren’t touched on in high school, like sociology and anthropology… or even head in another direction altogether. Because majoring in psych is quite different from enjoying an intro-level class.) It’s not like you’re applying to a clinical psychology grad program. Mention your interests and passions, but mainly focus on who you are as a person and what you would bring to the college community. Major aspirations are secondary.
Almost any topic can result in an effective application essay if done properly. Likewise, any topic can be ineffective, and even harmful to one’s chances of admission, if not written well. In short, no one can answer your question without reading a draft.