<p>The prompt (from the Common App):
Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.</p>
<p>I plan to guide the reader through an experience I overcame each step of the way, as if everything is happening as the reader's reading my essay. I figured it might give them a sense of participation. Would this be appropriate, considering the incident has already happened? Do adcoms frown upon doing so?</p>