<p>I was just told that this year the Common App changed the essay options and now there is no longer an option to write on whatever you want. I believe in the past it was the last option.</p>
<p>There is no topic of your choice this year.</p>
<p>Use the first prompt instead of the topic of your choice if you need to write about something not covered by the other prompts. It’s almost the same thing as the topic of your choice but reworded in a way so that you won’t steer off into a direction colleges don’t want to read about.</p>