<p>Use whichever topic allows for the most personal, detailed, and revealing essay.</p>
<p>People here aren’t likely to be able to say which topic that is: how could we know which topic allows you to be the most personal, detailed, and revealing?</p>
<p>Aim to write something that is so you that only you could have written it.</p>
<p>And, of course: show, don’t tell:</p>
<p>[Show</a>, don’t tell](<a href=“http://users.wirefire.com/tritt/tip1.html]Show”>http://users.wirefire.com/tritt/tip1.html)</p>
<p>Here is some more advice about college essays:</p>
<p>[Essays</a>, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html]Essays”>http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html)</p>
<p>I think that it is hard to write relevant essays on the topic of early childhood. Hard, not impossible. Still, your readers want to be shown what you are like now. Anecdotes about second grade, no matter how cleverly presented, may not be sufficiently revealing of the 17-or-so-year-old that you are today.</p>