Ok, here is a list of the essay topics I have drafted for my personal statement… could you let me know which you think is the best? Assume that the essay quality is the same for each. I don’t feel comfortable sharing the actual essays for plagiarism reasons but would appreciate if you could share which topics sound the most interesting. Thanks!
-my internship with a cafe this summer
-my favorite panera bread soup
-my favorite pig at my local zoo (this one sounds random but his name is also Andre so it’s about us being kindred spirits)
-the time I peed my pants while lost in the state fair corn maze (lol its about overcoming an obstacle)
-my first time milking a cow
-my grandmother’s disease (just in general how it has affected me)
-potatoes (I’m from Idaho)
The potatoes one sounds interesting!?
IMO it’s hard to tell just based on the topic- all depends on how you write it. Make sure to put the focus on you- who you are right now, the person you want to present to the AOs. Do your essays give a clear reason for them to “say yes”?
Have a parent or English teacher read it. Make sure that, if they were given a stack of random essays, yours is distinctive enough that they’d be able to pick yours out.
The 3 word description of the topic doesn’t matter. What matters is how much of “you” you put into the final result.
Why not bullet each one-- NOT FOR US, but for yourself? See what you would say and which one turns out to be the most uniquely you?
Lol… Some of the topics sounds pretty interesting. I think this topic -the time I peed my pants while lost in the state fair corn maze is good.
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