<p>I'm having problems. I wrote a draft that was actually good (needs work, obviously). But I'm still not sure I doing it correctly. I know to write about something important, personal, blahblahlblah. But I don't know which of the following questions is the actual question they want answered:</p>
<p>1) Who is this person really?
2) What is this person's life like? What is the context?
3) What does this person value in life? What is important to him?
4) What can this person contribute? What does he identify as his strengths?</p>
<p>The problem is that my essay answers number 4, but not really the others. Briefly, it's an essay about skills used in a board game (strategy/communication) game I love and play frequently, and how these skills are present in my own life. My parents read it and even they were amused. It's light, but gets the point across (as in, not stupid or insubstantial).</p>
<p>But the adcoms don't know anything about my family. Or what I love, beyond the things on my resum</p>
<p>bumpity bump. I know I shouldn't be bumping this, but it's gotten views but no responses, and I would really appreciate responses soon as I need to talk to my CC early this week.</p>
<p>Yeah, and I don't see how the ubiquitous "trip" or "OMG my teacher taught me about life" ones answer all of them. I guess my concern is that those naturally provide context, but mine would kind of be more detached. I have great stats/ECs (if I may say so myself); basically, I want to write a great essay but it doesn't have to be ground-breaking. On the other hand, I want them to get a good enough sense of who I am, or whatever they want.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think just show them who you are in a context outside of GPA, SATs, ECs, etc. It sounds like you've done it in a unique way- I was actually thinking of using a similair format writing about Jeopardy!.</p>