| Essay Topic- Anatomy
I'm starting to think about my essay for the Common App next year, and I'm pretty certain that I'll chose my own topic. Honestly, I haven't had any significant event happen in my life that would set me apart from any other person my age, so I am considering writing about my experience in my anatomy class. I'm in a medical program at my school that requires that we take anatomy and physiology our junior year; the class is at an actual medical school and we spend about 75% of our time in the gross anatomy lab.
The thing is that I hate the class, and I while I'm digging around in some lady's intestines, I'm usually having a conversation (with a living person, of course) about history or politics. Obviously I would write about the experience in a tasteful way and make a connection between the class and how it's affected my life, but does anyone think it's too weird. I want it to be humorous, not morbid (the backdrop provides some good imagery), but is this unique experience a little too unique for others to understand. I write well enough to pull it off and want to write about something that will catch their attention.
If it makes a difference, I'm apply ED to Rice, and if I don't get in there, I'm looking at Vanderbilt, Wash U in St. Louis, George Washington, William & Mary, and possibly Tulane. | 
College Confidential is dedicated to providing the best free college admissions information available on the Web, through our many articles and this discussion forum. For those of you who wish more personal advising, College Confidential offers private counseling services, conducted via e-mail, with services starting at $89. Counseling is conducted by our Director of Counseling Dave Berry, co-author of America's Elite Colleges and/or with Sally Rubenstone, co-author of Panicked Parents Guide to College Admission, and our other outstanding associates. See College Counseling for more information.
