<p>I want to write my main about my rise to and fall from high school popularity. </p>
<p>I want to show adcoms that a) I've learned something about me b) I wasn't all grades no books/I bring "diversity" c) Explain why my all-important junior year GPA has 3 B's/i can "flaunt" the fact that i earned any A's at all in the context of what I did. </p>
<p>yet Im afraid that adcoms wont "get it". they might draw unpleasant conclusions about me. im mostly concerned about what my top 1% schools, stanford and yale, would think. </p>
<p>personally, id really like to do this essay, cuz the topic means a lot to me. it made me into who i am and how i think. i think i would enjoy writing it, too.</p>
<p>Well can you go into a bit more detail? Hard to give advice on such a general question. Were there drugs or problems junior year? If it was just social/relationship problems junior year that’s not something to write your essay on in my opinion.</p>
<p>Then go for it! If you are concerned that college adcoms will form unfavorable impressions of you, then give it to a few complete strangers after you finished and see what they think. </p>
<p>I saw a really great essay about something like this in a packet I read for english. My english teacher didn’t like it (she went for the typical good student, teacher-loving, over the top adjective/verb laden essay topic), but I thought it was deep. </p>
<p>And remember, the worst essay is that which is never written.</p>
<p>If it’s something that really changed your life, and you are able to write it in a thoughtful, not cliche, not self depricating way, I think that it would be a good essay.</p>
<p>i would rather not write this, if i were you.
but hey, at least the topic is better than “how i got pregnant and what i learned from my experiences.”
okay, so maybe popularity isn’t thaaaat bad of a topic, but seriously, how many of the adcoms at yale and princeton were popular? wanted to be popular and preppy instead of the valedictorian? can they really relate to you?</p>
<p>“Then go for it! If you are concerned that college adcoms will form unfavorable impressions of you, then give it to a few complete strangers after you finished and see what they think.”</p>
<p>i agree with what everybody said! ill follow this advice and see what happens~ =) thanks!</p>
<p>If it’s well written I don’t think that will matter much. How many Yale or Princeton adcoms could relate to something like escaping Sudan or something? Or the thousands of different topics kids choose to write about each year? I know the rhetorical situation must be considered, but I don’t think it is a good enough reason to not try an idea out at the least. And if Yale or Princeton readers are any good, they will look past these fundemental differences in upbringing, at least to some degree. </p>
<p>And I think you might be surprised at the popularity of some of the top students at my former HS that went to schools like Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Some hardcore partiers, some well-known natural leaders, some jokesters, some chill bros, and a couple popular athletes (some of these categories mix). Not like THE most popular people, because it’s hard to make a social heirarchy when high school comes around, but up there. Definitely. The run of the mill nerds are in the minority of acceptances to these schools. If the students going to top schools were any similar back in generations past, then there would probably be one popular guy on the admission committee.</p>