Need help over essay topics

College Essays
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<p>So I'm having a bit of writer's block over my essay. I have several ideas, but no idea what to choose. Here's what I got.</p>

<ol>
<li>write about a teacher whom even though I despise him so much, he really helped me to shape up about academics. The teacher is like a Professor Snape to me.</li>
<li>how going to an all-girls school changed me</li>
<li>how being rejected for the school improv team twice helped me find other aspects in life</li>
<li>this was a suggestion from my BFF. She said that I should write how an average student can make it in a university that accepts high achievers. </li>
</ol>

<p>About #4, we both have GPAs of about 2.9-3.3 and okay SAT scores, but involved so much in our school. She's applying to Julliard for dance, so she doesn't have much to worry. Yet, she said that if I want to apply to a school like NYU, Pace, Northeastern and USC, I should write that someone with low academics but great ambitions to write as a career path can succeed. I told her that it's too risky, but she has high hopes of us getting into our desired universities. I nicknamed this option as the "Elle Woods Way" after the character from Legally Blonde, but I'm not doing this to win a boy back.</p>

<p>These are my topics, now I don't know which one is right for admissions.</p>

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<p>I think out of the four, number 1 is your best so far. But in all honesty, everyone has a teacher whom they dislike and whose class they struggle through. Unless you can be truly personal in that essay (or any of the other ones) I think that you should look around your immediate environment (family, friends, neighborhood) to find something that is unique to your situation and that you are passionate about. Good luck and I’m having the same struggles you are right now too, so you’re not alone.</p>

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<p>^Agreed. None of the topics seem great, but 1 I think is the safest. </p>

<p>BTW Elle Woods had a 4.0 and a superb LSAT score (179 out of 180, if I recall).</p>