<p>Hi guys!</p>
<p>I spent a lot of time thinking up an original topic that doesn't lack gravitas; I think I might be finally be on to something. That being said, I am looking for qualified readers.</p>
<p>Define qualified: A CC member with more than 100 meaningful posts who is not a member of the class of 2011 and has been on CC for at least seven months.</p>
<p>Thanks ;)</p>
<p>-Jayster</p>
<p>^^^hes legit…</p>
<p>Oh! Hey! Long time no see haha; how’s that essay going?</p>
<p>I think I’m going to use the soccer essay. Haha I know the other one’s better, I just have asked so many people and most (as well as my counselors) say to use soccer…it’s just frustrating because I worked on the other essay for maybe 3 months and I wrote the soccer in a week or less.</p>
<p>Well, as I said before, both essays have their respective benefits. Although the soccer essay is a bit more conventional, it is solid and well written. Your personality does shine through. However, as I said before, the “overcoming obstacles” theme has been done to death. </p>
<p>But trust your guidance counselor, I guess. A solid essay can do you no harm. However, if you do take a risk on a somewhat unorthodox essay, it can work miracles. One of my dad’s coworkers knows an Asian girl from New Jersey (2x geographic/racial disadvantage) who had a 1900 SAT, minimal ECs, no hook, and no athletic recruitment who got into Harvard by writing a beautiful essay about her father’s death in the terrorist attacks on 9/11.</p>
<p>I also agree that there is a lot of risk involved. Any admission officer has not read anything like my essay before, and that could work to my advantage in a big way, or that could hurt me. I was thinking about my trusted college advisor’s comments saying that they think my soccer essay being more compelling because it’s my own journey that I did MYSELF, unlike the soccer essay. But the soccer essay is just so ordinary and cliche…I just don’t know…I wish I could ask an admission officer</p>