Topic help

College Essays
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<p>For my high school English class we have to write a pratice college admissions essay and I currently have three topic ideas but I’m not sure that any are at all decent. </p>

<li><p>I already wrote this essay but it is on a flood that happened at my barn two days ago. Since I wrote it so close to the incident the description is good but it doesn’t really talk about me much other than a reality check type of message. </p></li>
<li><p>This was my original idea before the flood happened to write about relay for life. Its a 24 hour event to raise finds and awareness for cancer and I stayed up all night walking the track making great friends with people I hadn’t met previously. Since I have always had trouble with being shy and introverted this experience really did help me break out of my shell. </p></li>
<li><p>And this option would show me personality the most but is also potentially incredibly inappropriate. For the common app prompt to write about a fction character historical figure or creative work and how it has shaped you I wanted to write about a television show that is really important to me and has completely changed me for the better. But I also get the feeling that that would be inapppropriate so … I don’t know </p></li>
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<p>Any advice would be great, and sorry for typos my internet is dead and I’m writing this on my phone</p>

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<p>It's great that it's for a class, write the second one, and see how the teacher grades it. (If you have time, write all three and get your teacher's advice about which one to actually use....)</p>

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<p>The topic that allows you to be the most personal, detailed, honest and revealing is imo a good topic for you.</p>

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<p>I just finished writing the second essay and is defiantely very personal but it also highlights my main flaw of being introverted but I do say that I am taking strides to change that but I also say I will never be the extremly opinionated outgoing kid and since colleges want "leaders" I feel like this might hurt me</p>

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<p>I don't believe that colleges want only "leaders". I appreciate honesty in an essay, so long as the overall thrust of the essay is positive about the writer. I also appreciate reading about improvements that were made or are being made to address a problem.</p>