<p>Would it be ok to use a completely-made up story for this essay? Something along the lines of a fantasy/comedy story that basically shows creativity?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Yeah, that sounds fine.</p>
<p>Yeah, especially if it’s obviously made up. For example, if you slay dragons in this story, there will be no confusion. 
As long as there is no intention to mislead the adcoms (How I got caught in Africa saving starving children with AIDS), fiction can be fine.</p>
<p>I made something up completely for this prompt and got in EA, so fiction is definitely viable.</p>
<p>Make sure it’s about you, though. I was going to write a fictional type essay for emory scholars, and it just didn’t express me enough, so I didn’t submit it. Make the main character an obvious representation of yourself or make it about an issue you’ve demonstrated you care about in other pieces of your app…</p>
<p>My chicago essays were pretty standard except for my main common app. I love that essay… I don’t think it was my essays that got me in (EA).</p>
<p>I think anything that shows creativity is good. Mine was absolutely insane (in a good way).</p>