<p>The best essay topic for you is the one that allows you to be the most personal, detailed, and revealing. To write an essay that is so you that no one else could write it.</p>
<p>Only you can know what that topic is.</p>
<p>With that in mind:</p>
<h1>1: If you use #1, make sure that the essay does not pretty much repeat what your reader can find elsewhere in the application.</h1>
<h1>2: If you use #2, make sure that the essay is about you, not about your dad.</h1>
<h1>3: If you use #3, make sure that you don’t write the cliche essay about how you were bad but you worked hard and got better and that shows that hard work pays off. Such an essay will not help distinguish you from other applicants.</h1>
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<p>Choose whichever topic allows for the most personal, detailed and revealing essay. For purposes of the essay, it doesn’t matter if you are good at lacrosse or tennis or community service. What matters is what you reveal of yourself: how personal and detailed the essay is.</p>
<p>Here is some good advice about essays:</p>
<p>[Essays</a>, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html]Essays”>http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html)</p>
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