<p>Just out of curiousity.</p>
<p>for the academic opportunity one i wrote about playing 4 years of football, and how it taught me more than any class.
For the special gifts one i talked about creativity something pretty generic (i liked my football one best)
and for the other one i talked about me diggin' politics and wanting to help poverty issues. </p>
<p>My recomendation: talk about stuff you liked doing during high school, and what you wanna do in college, if you're a match, for Cal, you'll get in. Talk about your dreams and hopes, and be a good writer.</p>
<p>crap! I have no real talents, no sports, no passions I could really discuss. I'll probably end up writing about living at Girl Scout camp for a summer as a counselor or something.</p>
<p>lol,...this is gonna come off as sounding funny...but a good writing excersise: 'how did that make you feel"
be real about it, did you hate it? if you did why? what'd it teach you? what from that experience shaped you, what would you do if you had to do it over again, whould you do it again?
That's how you gotta look at it. It doesn't always matter what you did, but how you can articulate it, and if it can be articulated well, that's what'll matter, it'll show that you're smart, and sociable, and able to defend yourself at w/e institution you're at....because you can describe who you are, even if you're not really sure who you are.</p>
<p>Try and writing about something that makes you stand out, make you unique. You want to catch the attention of the people reading your essays so try not to be forgetful.</p>
<p>academic opportunities: taking math at cal.
extracurricular: a club i co-founded to promote asian-american sociopolitical awareness.
other: me and my friends, and how we were a little...deviant.</p>
<p>Academic opportunity: mad history skills. Sounded like I was high when I was writing so it came off very hilarious.</p>
<p>EC: Being libertarian in a psychotic and funny way.</p>
<p>Other: Working in my family's business and the amalgamaztion (sp) of education and business.</p>
<p>^^i think it's just amalgamation</p>
<p>i know this is pretty much what every college bound senior has been hearing, but don't write what you THINK admissions officers want to hear. write from the heart!</p>