<p>The common app question that i want to answer is discuss some issue of personal concern and its importance to you. </p>
<p>I have written about how students need more sleep and they should start school later because it is important to me that we perform at our greatest potential. </p>
<p>Is this okay? or is it not a good topic for my essay? PLEASE GIVE SOME FEEDBACK!!! IM FREAKING OUT!</p>
<p>if you can find a way to put something that reveals something about you then yea, the whole point of the personal essay is so that you can tell something about yourself just like the supplements, if you are just going to write an article about how sleep affects students and don’t link it to someway to you or your experiences then it would be best to choose a different topic.</p>
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<p>The easy solution is: Go to bed earlier.</p>
<p>If you are complaining about having to stay up late to do homework, just realize that if school starts later, it ends later, so you will go to bed even later (assuming you spend the same amount of time on homework).</p>
<p>I like the topic. OperaDad, there have been numerous studies showing the benefits of a later start for teens and their sleep. Teenagers have a different natural sleep pattern (late to bed, late to rise) than adults or small children, yet we make them get up at what for them is an unnaturally early time. St. George’s, a RI boarding school, did a study to see the effects of a half hour later start. The results were so positive they made the schedule change permanent. See a synopsis here:</p>
<p>[Study:</a> Teens’ performance, health benefit from later school day - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-07-06-school-start_N.htm]Study:”>Study: Teens' performance, health benefit from later school day - USATODAY.com)</p>