is this a good essay topic?

College Essays
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<p>i'm applying early to villanova and its supplemental app has the essay question: Please detail a time in your life when you have been transformed. i'm planning to write about friendship and how my view on what makes a good friend has changed over the course of my high school years. Basically I'll talk about how my high school was notorious for drugs/alcohol and so going into freshman year I wanted to be friends with only 'good' kids. But eventually I realized that 'good' kids can be terrible friends and that a true friend not only cares about/respects you, but cares/respects himself. I would close positively by saying I am looking forward to the college experience not only to grow academically, but to grow as a person and make life-long friends. How does this idea sound?</p>

<p>Also, are you allowed to send the same essay for the supplemental app and the common app? Or do colleges require 2 essays?</p>

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<p>I think it is a good idea, most colleges dont want bookworms who just study all the time, they want people who are involved with the community and people.</p>

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<p>any more thoughts?</p>

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<p>As long as you don't say you preferred hanging out with the "bad" kids. I guess your point is that "good" kids are not necessarily "good friends"?? Focus on the change in you --not just on the qualities of the friends. Two different essays is a better idea--one on friendship one with a more academic or career-oriented slant?</p>