Is my essay too clich

College Essays
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<p>My essay is about this past summer, which I spent volunteering in Mexico. I know that essays about life-changing travel experiences and volunteer work are a dime a dozen, so I'm worried that mine might be too clich</p>

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<p>Bump? Haha, I need advice…</p>

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<p>Bored at work. I would be happy for a break.</p>

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<p>sure thing, send it over</p>

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<p>It sounds like it’d still be seen as too cliche.</p>

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<p>Bump… Completely forgot to check this thread, sorry! Still looking for people to read over my essay. Thanks!</p>

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<p>ill read it !</p>

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<p>Anyone else willing to read it?</p>

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<p>i’ll read it, will you read mine as well?</p>

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<p>Sure, I’ll read yours, PM it to me.</p>

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<p>Nothing is too cliche if you stand out.</p>

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<p>There are NO cliche topics.</p>

<p>There are only cliche treatments of topics.</p>

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<p>Yep sure, PM it over.</p>

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<p>Well, ADad, I’d love some feedback on whether or not my treatment of the topic is clich</p>

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<p>If your essay is personal, detailed/specific, and revealing…</p>

<p>if it is so you that (ideally) only you could have written it…</p>

<p>if it is personal like that, then it is not cliche.</p>

<p>Cliche is something that anyone could write. They wouldn’t have to be you, they wouldn’t have to have done your trip. Cliche is something that pretty much everyone knows, pretty much everyone can say.</p>

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<p>is cliche.</p>

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<p>is not cliche.</p>

<p>Model yourself after the latter, not the former.</p>

<p>There is excellent advice here: [University</a> of Virginia Piece on College Essays | Fredrik deBoer](<a href=“http://fredrikdeboer.com/2012/07/25/university-of-virginia-piece-on-college-essays/]University”>http://fredrikdeboer.com/2012/07/25/university-of-virginia-piece-on-college-essays/)</p>

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<p>ADad, thanks for the link! It contains a lot of good advice.</p>

<p>Would you be willing to look over my essay? I’d hate to impose, but I’d like all the feedback I can get.</p>

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<p>I’d like to take a look. Happy to give it a read.</p>

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<p>I think that unless you make your essay crazy awesome and wonderful it will most likey be too cliche. this topic is pretty overdone, and I think admissions counselors have heard a lot of it. But if you really want to write about your trip I think you should consider choosing one specific event that happened while you were on your trip. Tell a story and make it interesting and entertaining, but also dont forget to let the essay tell the admissions counselors who you truely are.</p>