<p>Hey everyone, I'm going to be a senior in a couple weeks, which obviously means I'll be applying to college. I think I'm a really bad writer. On all my standardized tests I always do poorly on the writing part. For example, my composite ACT was a 34, but my writing was a 29 :(. I need your help in deciding a topic for my essay, i will be applying to ucs, some ivies, and business schools i think. I was thinking some possible topics could be:
-being a twin (or some experience I might have had with that)
-wrestling(started sophmore year, but really dedicated most of my time to it)
Other than those 2 i really don't know what to write about. I'm 16 going to be a senior, yea i know young for a senior. So please help me pick a topic. I also don't want to write about how wrestling changed my life by teaching my hardwork and all that because it sounds corny. but every idea i have somehow eventually ends up into glorifying myself. Please help, thank you!</p>
<p>I think you just need to sit down and spend some time thinking. Or go for a walk and clear your mind. Then start brainstorming. Check out our article on brainstorming for more techniques you can use to think of a suitable college application essay topic: [College</a> Application Essay Topics]( <a href=“http://collegeateam.com/how-to-brainstorm-for-college-application-essay-topic-ideas/]College”>http://collegeateam.com/how-to-brainstorm-for-college-application-essay-topic-ideas/)</p>
<p>As far as your specific ideas, being a twin and wrestling can both work. The direction you choose to take your essay will be much more important than the subject. I like the one about being a twin a little better because a lot of the information on your wrestling career is already in your transcript and/or list of activities. But if you choose to write about being a twin, take it somewhere other than “we will always be a part of each other” or some similar cliche.</p>
<p>I would only write about wrestling if that is a serious, heartfelt passion of yours. Spending a lot of time on it does not necessarily qualify it as a passion. Only you can decide if that topic is essay-worthy.</p>
<p>If you think something you wrote is corny the admissions officer probably will to. Have a friend or teacher read it to see what they think. Youre correct, writing something like wrestling has changed my life and I now recognize the value of hard work might make an admissions officer roll his or her eyes. Maybe you can find a better way to say that. Ultimately, your treatment of the topic is going to determine the admissions officers reaction.</p>
<p>I think i will go with the twin thing because i recently went to a college recruiting seminar and they said not to do essays about sports because thats already in your college app. Not sure what direction im going to take, but I’ll try brainstorming and see how it works. Thanx for the help and link! Another question…do i only have to write 1 personal essay for uc’s and ivies and most big colleges?</p>
<p>With the twin thing i was thinking of going along the lines of how have a twin made me very competitive and eventually hard working or something and how i used to hate it, but i realised having a twin made me who i am today. is that a good idea or to cliche?</p>
<p>That sounds good if you genuinely believe it. Just don’t use the exact phrase “made me who I am today.”</p>
<p>Hopefully you have some funny anecdotes from your childhood about how you always wanted to one-up your twin. At some point in your life, you have probably dedicated a lot of energy to beating him/her at something that seems silly in retrospect. For me it was mini-golf. I had heated mini-golf battles with my sister when I was growing up and I was a complete stickler for the rules (“That’s a stroke penalty!”) because I wanted to win so badly. We laugh about it now. Perhaps you have something similar you can throw in to your essay.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You might start with a story about how someone walked up and started talking to you, and you were very confused because you had never met the person. Then you reveal to the reader that you’re a twin. That could be a clever way of introducing it, if crafted well.</p>
<p>Yea, i mite do that cuz i actually got a number once by that…actually idk if ill use that story. Idk i have thought of some other possible topics and it seems like an actuall event that happened that shows traits in me is better than a general quality about me. And thanx for the replys. Also my gpa UW is really bad like a 3.3-3.45 and W its 3.67-3.8, not sure of exact numbers, so i was thinking maybe doing an essay to explain my video game addiction and how wrestling changed it and thats how my grades went from horrible freshmen year to pretty good junior year. Thoughts? Thanx for the replys btw.</p>
<p>I like your competitive twin essay. Colleges will appreciate the candor regarding your motivations- a few years later I wish I had been more honest with mine.</p>
<p>I’ll go with the twin thing then. I just hope it turns out all right because I am a horrible writer. Never really developed better skills since freshmen year, other than vocab. I think its cuz i stopped reading, not enough time unfortunately. :(, but thank you for the replies. :)</p>