<p>i've heard lots of different things about extracurriculars and people say the essay and presenting yourself as a 'cohesive interesting personality' with your entire application will raise your chances. my idea for an essay would be about my mom and her many mental illnesses and how that made me want to go into psych, and stuff about my own psychological problems and my experience with a psychiatrist that makes me wanna change the way they do thingss. i wanna reform da psych industry! but is that too personal i hear it's not good to be tooo personal just a little</p>
<p>Essay? Stanford requires several. The best thing you can do in a college essay is show your strengths and what you’ll bring to campus. Dark essyas about psychiatric struggles, a parent’s and your own, may not be where you want to go.</p>
<p>The app was probably already due but here’s my two cents.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter what you write about nearly as much as how you relate it to yourself. You want to show more than your academic interests. You can write about something as silly as working in a donut shop (an essay which is now in one of the books of top college essays) to something as serious as what you are thinking of. </p>
<p>I wrote about an injury that ruined my dream of being a professional sports player and was accepted early into Stanford this past year.</p>