Since the College Essay Forum sucks and you guys are awesome

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Posted this in the college essay forum. No one answered.
Wondering if you could give some input? This about essay topic, not the actual essay.</p>

<p>Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. *</p>

<p>Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?</p>

<p>Those are the two topics. For the first one, I was thinking of writing about my culture, being Romanian/ Isreali, traveling to those countries and throughout Europe, etc. I was thinking that might be a bit trite since a lot of people write about their culture. I could write about going to a therapeutic boarding school and how i grew from that, but my parents say i should probably avoid mentioning that (and all the druggies there, etc.. i was sent there because my relationship with my mom wasn't good. I didn't do drugs and i had good grades)</p>

<p>As for the second essay..I was thinking of writing about how i want to help others learn about themselves and I am compassionate and supportive. I don't know how i would write that though since talking about that seems kind of full of myself. I mean, how can you write about a good quality about yourself without sounding like a prick? When something makes you proud, it's usually because you did something great, which would kind of be bragging.. Thought maybe tying this in somehow to my asspirations to be an engineer. Thinking that may also sound trite.</p>

<p>What do you guys think?
Also, my friend basically said they don't even read these things. Is this true? Does anyone know how they use these essays in the decision process, if at all?</p>

<p>Thanks!!</p>

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<p>Pweez give input. :/</p>

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<p>I wrote an essay on a simliar topic and I related mine to an experience…</p>

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<p>“they don’t even read these things”
Pathetic attempt at dispelling your questions and worries.</p>

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<p>write about how you sucked at it to begin with and then got good at it,
that’s what i did for both those essays</p>

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<p>If you write about the boarding school try to be specific and give good anecdotes. In fact try to do that in general of course.</p>

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<p>Aren’t those the MIT topics? Great, I haven’t even looked at these yet. For me, I’ll probably talk about my family for the first one. Not sure what to write for the second essay… I’ll probably tweak one of my common app essays a little bit to fit the prompt.</p>

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<p>^no. those are the uc statements.</p>

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<p>For the second one, just talk about things that you have done that support what you are trying to convey. Don’t just say that you are supportive, show it through examples of what you have done and why you feel that way.</p>

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<p>lol, sorry, but they just look really familiar.</p>