<p>So I was deciding what to write for my NMS essay and my common app essay and decided to do just one essay for both. The problem is I'm not sure what to write about. I have two ideas I want to write about, but I don't know which one is better, so I wanted your guys opinion. Both are under the topic of experience that changed my life</p>
<p>Essay #1: I want to write about my trip to India when I was a 12 year old. I actually made friends with my grandparent's cook's son and he actually took me into the slums. I would write about meeting the boy and seeing the slums and saying how that inspired me to become a biomedical engineer because the boy ended up dying of malnutrition and also allowed me to see how the other side of the world lives.</p>
<p>Essay #2: The only reason I even thought about doing something else was because my dad told me that admissions officers get third world country ones all the time and mine would have to be really good to stick in their heads and I'm an average writer, so I thought of another topic. This one, I was going to write about how growing up as a kid, I loved playing soccer and tennis and that one day when I had both practices during the same days, I had an asthma attack and had to be rushed to the hospital. I ended up quitting soccer so my asthma wouldn't get out of control. This experience made me realize I wanted to enter the medical field, specifically the biomedical field as the only reason I stopped soccer was because, I couldn't bring my nebulizer to the practice fields, while tennis practice was in my neighborhood.</p>
<p>I think essay topic 2 is a very first world problem and supposedly admissions officers like that sometimes. However I think essay topic 1 is much more emotional and more life altering even though both can be made to sound really influential in my life. Let me know what you think :)</p>