<p>Ok, so I'm applying to a school EA as a recruited athlete (ivy) and I was wondering if it would be acceptable to talk about my sport in the common app essay. I'm either doing the prompt about failure or the peaceful place and I feel as though things to do with my sport would fit perfectly into the essay. I'm just wondering if admissions will think I'm just a jock who only cares about their sport. It's just that this sport is the one thing in my life I am most passionate about and I feel as though it has made me the person I am today. So do you think it would be okay to write about it?</p>
<p>Well aren’t you guaranteed admission since you are recruited so it doesn’t matter?</p>
<p>If you can suss out a way to talk about your sport that demonstrates some different aspect of you, then it’s a possibility. They are already recruiting you for your sport, so they assume you love it, work hard at it and have had some pretty amazing sports moments. Think about what else about your experiences can give insight into you as a curious seeker of truth, a voyager into the unknown or, possibly if you can avoid cliche stories, a team building leader?</p>
<p>Sports is over used. So if u are going to write about it, then do so uniquely. I wouldnt though. Since u are being recruited, they know u are passionate and u play a sport. Give them something else. They say u shouldnt reiterate other parts of ur application in the personal statement. I say tell them who u are at home or something. Outside school and sports</p>
<p>what dancingqueen said…</p>
<p>Sports are cliche, however, I’d just focus on putting together a respectable essay rather than stress about it. it doesn’t have to be the greatest essay in the world. chances are they’ll just gloss over it anyway lol.</p>
<p>At every college admissions session I have gone to this summer, I have heard not to write your common app essay about your sports. It’s not because you can’t write a good essay about sports, it is because it is too easy for so many kids to write about sports that the admissions people literally pass out from boredom or something because it’s like watching the same commercial 1000 times.</p>
<p>Like the essays about that community service “that really made you think” etc I heard that a few times too.</p>
<p>I did have a buddy who used a particular event in his sports (not how it made him a better person but something that actually happened) and he’s going to the school he wanted to go to. So it is not like a hard fast rule.</p>
<p>I liked niceday’s answer. That is a good way of looking at it.</p>
<p>You can if you wish but you have to do so uniquely. Adcoms can practically predict the entire essay if you don’t, so you have to bring a fresh angle. An interesting idea might be to write the essay from the perspective of the ball/puck/stick/water/whatever your sport uses.</p>