First, I just want to point out that you’re only 14. You have SO much time to prepare these college admissions essays that I think time would be better spent focusing on your current academics rather than worrying about this. I’m really one to talk though- I mean at your age I was doing the same thing. But still. The difference between you now at at 14 and you at 17 when you apply to college will be HUGE. And let me stress that… HUGE. Looking back at how I acted and how I looked at the world at 14 compared to now at 17 is astonishing really. Those 3 years are a crazy time of growth. So what you would perhaps want to write a college essay about now could and probably will change by the time you’re 17 and actually applying to college. In fact, by the time you’re 17 maybe something extremely significant and life altering may have happened in your life that sparks an idea for an essay. Who knows.
My point is, right now it’s a little ridiculous to be thinking of this. However, if I really had to assess what you should write your essay about with the info given, I’d maybe suggest what it was like growing up w a super strict conservative family from the sounds of it? Do you not feel a part of that? Do you feel like living in such a secluded environment you were robbed of a lot of growth and experiences you may have had otherwise?
Contrary to common belief, the adcoms who read your admissions essays are well aware that you ARE only 17 at the time you write your essay and they are completely aware that most 17 year olds will have not cured cancer or had some horrific experience happen to them that shaped them into the person they are today. Although it may not seem like it, most the kids you’ll be going up against at MIT will have been just has privileged- if not more so- as you have been so fortunate to be growing up. All the adcoms want to see is YOU in the essay, whether that be as significant as a death of a family member to the fact you were deprived of ice cream your whole life. Just write what feels right.