Need Help Choosing a Topic for College Essay

College Essays
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Hi all :D,

I have already wrote two college essays, but I do not think that they portray anything special about me. I have composed a list of possible topics to use for the Common App prompts. Please help me choose which you think would make the best college essay.

Prompt #1:

Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story (650 word limit).

Possible Topics:

  • How getting glasses after years of needing them (because I couldn't afford them) has changed my outlook on life.
  • How having a huge head has negatively impacted my life and what I did to overcome this. I end the essay with how my life has changed by getting over this insecurity.

Prompt #2: Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?

  • How I attempt to be different from my family members who all suffer of poverty by breaking out of the family's "predestination" (idk if this makes sense)

Prompt #3: Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.

  • How being an only child for 16 years has changed my life and how my newborn brother has made me motherly.
  • How my parent's divorce has changed my life and how I became independent because of this.
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Glasses/big head: Seem trivial. You would have to write these very well to be compelling.

Breaking out of poverty: Could work, could be trite/too negative, depending.

Newborn brother at 16: This made me go awww. Seems more positive than your other ideas. I like it the most.

Divorce: Easy to get bogged down in negativity. Be careful of this one.

On the whole, I would suggest the newborn brother angle.

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ANOTHER TOPIC: Going to a school that is fashion-based because I wanted to be a fashion designer, however now wanting to be a doctor. I could write about how I created opportunities for myself in an environment with so little from those wanting to go into the STEM field.

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@NavalTradition Thanks! I have already wrote an essay on glasses and the head. Could you possibly read it an tell me if i should stick to those or just go for the newborn brother topic?

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@IWantStanford16 Sure, PM me.

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I think you have “written” the essay, right?

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@intparent Correct. I apologize, my grammar isn’t the best. :confused:

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have written*** (instead of “have wrote”)

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Bump