<p>Any suggestions for a unique college essay? </p>
<p>Should I write about some tragic family event or something that is totally unique? or perhaps about specific volunteer work I did? Would writing about my love of geography be too strange?</p>
<p>What did you write about and where did you get accepted to?</p>
<p>If you think it’s strange then you’re headed in the right direction. At one point during my senior year, I even considered writing about my fascination with my own toe nails. Weird, I know.</p>
<p>I’m currently attending Boston College.</p>
<p>Figure out the story you want to tell; we can’t tell you what that is because we don’t know you. After you know what you want to say, try your best to communicate it.</p>
<p>Write about whatever gives the person reading your application novel and/or deepened insight into you as a person. This often means writing about something that doesn’t fit elsewhere, but not always. For example, I wrote about the role of Spanish in my life but also listed Spanish tutoring as an EC (I’m currently a Senior).</p>
<p>It’s not the topic; it’s what you do with the topic.</p>
<p>Choose whatever topic allows for the most personal, detailed and revealing essay. The essay that, ideally, only you could write. </p>
<p>There is good advice at:</p>
<p>[Essays</a>, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html]Essays”>http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html)</p>