<p>I'm having trouble picking a topic. I used a similar prompt for my common app essay xD don't want to sound redundant</p>
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<p>I think I’m going to choose the influential person choice. The essay will be fairly similar to one of my UC essays, and I feel like I’ll be able to explain a lot about myself, interests, background, motivation, etc. through this choice.</p>
<p>hmm idk if there is such an influential person for me to write about. except my mom, which is cliche…</p>
<p>Me too! I’m unable to decide and I dislike the idea of an influential person essay. Any influences on my life have been cumulative and no one person has radically changed who I am.</p>
<p>^yeah I think it also sounds artificial to claim that one person has such significant influence over your life</p>
<p>I don’t think that the essay is necessary saying that one person radically changed the way you thought about the world, but rather saying that this person, along with a bunch of factors at the time, was the catalyst that caused all those of those factors to coallesque and change you.</p>
<p>^coalesce? 
ah I see. still, I don’t think any one person “catalyzed” that kind of change in me. i thought of something different though</p>
<p>To say one person was</p>
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<p>is contradictory with the idea that</p>
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<p>The straw that broke the camel’s back, did break the camel’s back didn’t it?</p>
<p>^haha good point</p>