<p>I'm asking this because music pretty much dominates my extracurriculars. I've always loved it and strongly believe that it is a great supplement to academics. I was just thinking about writing about this for my college essay - about how the neural pathways that music creates can serve to open up new perspectives in learning, etc. etc. Is this a trite topic? Has anyone fared well with it, on the other hand? For some reason, I feel like it might be considered unoriginal to admissions departments.</p>
<p>No problem with music as such. i think it depends on how you approach it. try to make it not strictly an analysis of music and the mind, but about yourself and your experience. </p>
<p>since the topic interests you so much it sounds like a good bet–your interest may come across. start writing and see what emerges.</p>
<p>best
L</p>
<p>I wrote my college app essay on music and got accepted to a top tier school with it. I didn’t talk about neural pathways just synesthesia, but still. Music dominates my ECs so it made sense for me to write about it too. </p>
<p>Any topic can seem “overdone.” But any topic can also seem interesting. It all depends on how you write about it.</p>
<p>I am in agreement with what has been said above.</p>
<p>My advice is that you reflect on the purpose of every sentence in your essay. Sure, you can use music as a topic, but what are you trying to convey? If you start writing about the neural pathways excited by musical sounds, are you implying that you are interested in neuroscience and are looking to major in it, with a concentration in audiology? Or are you just expressing your amazement at the workings of the human mind in an attempt to show an adcom that you see music as an extension of the mind?</p>
<p>Like Laeven said, it all depends on where you take it. Just be conscious that, whatever you do end up writing about, adcoms will wonder why you wrote about it. Be sure you address that somehow.</p>