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<li><p>Use diversity of Beatles' songs as a metaphor for my open minded/spontaneous nature</p></li>
<li><p>Relate my passion for downhill skiing to my personality</p></li>
<li><p>Write about cutting my hair way too short (by accident), what I learned from it</p></li>
<li><p>write essay from perspective of my dog (very "out there" idea, not sure yet)</p></li>
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<p>input, please? :D</p>
<h1>3 would be great if you’re a good storyteller/have a sense of humor. :)</h1>
<p>still wary about #4; that’s a hard one to pull off properly.</p>
<p>Still, a summary isn’t a subsitute for reading and evaluating your actual writing style. ;D</p>
<p>i feel like i could tell the story of 3, and then relate it to what i learned about being upset over the little things in life, learning to go with the flow, make the best of what i have, etc.</p>
<p>those big idea essays are really cliche</p>
<p>^ can you elaborate on what is cliche?</p>
<p>don’t worry about sounding too cliche… ALL college essays are going to fall into one category or another. But your ideas are specific enough that they won’t be overly cliche.</p>
<p>i really want to avoid being cliche. is there any way i can make these ideas more abstract?</p>
<p>I don’t know about number 4 because I’m not sure how your dog’s perspective can describe YOU. After all, that’s what an admissions officer wants to know in your essay, YOU.</p>
<p>I know this is a kind of hard, but I would suggest writing all of them. You may be surprised to find that one topic that didn’t sound like it would turn out well actually turned out better than another topic. You can only find out after you write them.</p>
<p>i would describe my dog taking notice of my actions, blah blah…okay I really love my dog, maybe i went a little overboard with that one, lol.</p>
<p>I think writing all of them would be a good idea, as well</p>
<p>trust me, no.4 has been done before… generally all topics have… it’s the details that set everything apart.</p>
<p>alright, i’ll keep that in mind, thank you</p>