<p>Should the common app essay not only demonstrate your personality, but also relate your experience and personality to what you are passionate about? </p>
<p>Assume both essays are structured and written equally.</p>
<p>Let's say a girl had a mom who had cancer, battled for years, but died..the girl rambles on about an experience that helped her develop her personality and ambitions, etc... and relates that to her passion for bio med?? </p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>For the entire essay, the girl talks about the same experience that helped her develop her personality and ambitions... WITHOUT mentioning her passions. This essay would talk MORE about her personality, and be more personality focused, less passion focused</p>
<p>In your opinion, which one would be the better essay?</p>