<p>"Discuss a significant person, experience, or achievement that has a significant meaning for you."</p>
<p>And I have written an essay on moving from 2nd grade into 3rd in the middle of the year, which to me was significant because it really required me to open up more and shaped me into the girl I am now. This is really one of the few interesting moments in my life; my achievements/experiences are mundane, and all of the people that I know haven't changed my life significantly I suppose. </p>
<p>Are you sure that you must reach all the way back to third grade in order to give a personal, detailed, honest and revealing insight into the young woman you are now, into the kind of presence that you will bring to a college classroom, dormitory, campus?</p>
<p>No one “has a significant meaning” for you?</p>
<p>Your achievements/experiences may be mundane, yet great insight can come from the commonplace. It’s not the topic, it’s what you do with the topic. Thoreau wrote “I was determined to know beans.” I’ve read excellent, insightful essays on topics as “mundane” as losing weight, a type of food, a bad habit, a game, a race, a sibling, a parent.</p>
<p>I think it would be fine. When I wrote this essay, I wrote about second grade and how my teacher instilled in me my love for the thing I am most passionate about today. Of course, I’ve yet to hear from the school to which it was submitted, but everyone who read it for me thought it truly represented me. Thus, if it truly represents you, I say to go for it :)</p>