<p>How do college's perceive your weaknesses? While being honest and true to yourself, you don't want to give something really bad, right?</p>
<p>exactly. Admitting to a drug addiction or criminal behavior is not going to garner oohs and ah's from the adcoms ;) </p>
<p>The usual advice is to come up with some "weakness" that's a mild positive, like saying you sometimes spend too much time on homework because you want it to always be your best work.</p>