<p>Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Space Jam!! The memories :D</p>
<p>I think my topic was original but not creative. It's realistic, let's put it that way. It is nothing creative though. It's just that these splendid ideas or even essays I've read here simply seem beyond what the writing level of high schoolers. I could've never written that, UNLESS I started writing my essay four months before the deadline. </p>
<p>None of my essays was satirical either. They are simply too realistic.</p>
<p>I think you'll find VERY few essays which have used satire, and fewer which used them effectively. I seriously wouldn't worry about it. Besides, no use second guessing yourself now =).</p>
<p>Are these what you call "KILLER" essays? </p>
<p>Also, for my supplemental essay, I didn't state anything about why I want to go to H. I hear that some people do that. For the interview, should I read some Crimson articles just so I know more about H? Or should I know more about myself first?</p>
<p>I don't know if this has been said (because I'm too lazy to read the entire thread), but if you read "50 Successful Harvard Application Essays" by the Crimson Staff, you will find an essay about toilets and fecal matter. Yes, he actually said "s h i t" in his essay and he got in. If you are a good writer, you can get away with anything.</p>
<p>One girl wrote an essay on why she loved ducks. She got into Harvard. See above</p>
<p>"a student got into duke with an essay about the color purple"</p>
<p>Was it about the color purple or about The Color Purple?</p>
<p>the color, not the book</p>
<p>If your topic about hot dogs can reveal something unique and interesting about yourself, go for it. </p>
<p>In my opinion, the job of the essay is to make the admissions officers love you so much that theres no way they can reject you. </p>
<p>Personally, both of my essays were very creative. My main essay was on how my last name has affected me throughout my life. It wasn't deep or smart sounding. It was funny, original, and very well organized. It also revealed a lot about my character and who I am as a person.</p>
<p>Now, an essay on hot dogs may be more difficult to relate to yourself and your character, but if you can make it work, and if other people who read it absolutely love you for writing it (try your parents and teachers) then go for it.</p>
<p>Mmmm, I think the general trend of the advice here is becoming clear, CollegeBound. In the original post you simply asked "is it good to write an essay about hot dogs?", which makes it sound very gimmicky, as if you were looking for the most absolutely random and convoluted topic to write an essay about. That's not good. I'd imagine adcoms are sick of reading hundreds and thousands of essays like that. However, if you really communicated your personality by talking about hot dogs then there's nothing wrong with that at all. It all depends on how and, more importantly, why, you wrote about hot dogs.</p>
<p>Ralph Nader once gave a speech about hot dogs and nutrition, if I recall correctly. It was a passage in some SAT preparation book.</p>
<p>Nader definitely rails on fast food and hot dogs and such in some of his pieces. He considers obesity a gigantic problem. ;)</p>
<p>original is good but if it isn't well-written it is nothing compared to a cliche but well-writtnen essay. Think about it. Seriously most novels that are good like the famous ones like Invisible Man, Crime and Punishment deal with really cliche themes but they're all still well-written with much meaning.</p>
<p>Mine was on toilet paper, beast essay.</p>
<p>I wrote my short essay for Yale Law School about the evolution of my pie crust recipe. However, pie crust wasn't really the underlying theme; it was a parody of pretentious, stuffed-shirt academic prose and of essays that takes themselves way too seriously. If a hot dog essay is REALLY about hot dogs, it probably won't work. If it USES hot dogs to tell a more interesting and important story, then it has much better odds.</p>
<p>my essay topic was about our school swim team's annual event in which we jump out of practice during the middle of winter and run, in our speedos, to the road right in front of our school. Title: Speedo Running</p>
<p>BTW it got me into Brown, so it couldn't have been that bad.</p>
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<p>BUT, it might have been the reason why Brown adcoms seriously considered rejecting you... However, due to other merits, they decided to let it slide... jkjk</p>