<p>I’m a person whose main passion is fighting for women’s rights. I’ve heard from various sources that if you write a gender-biased or race-biased essay of any sorts, you will be likely to get rejected? Is this true? </p>
<p>I wrote my essay about my work in the field of women’s rights because that’s the most important thing to me; it’s not really women-biased, but it’s about fighting for what I think is right and just. Will this get me in the reject pile or disadvantage me in any way?</p>
<p>That sounds like a fine topic. After all, if a college is going to reject you because you are passionate about gender rights would you want to go to that school anyway? But really, that topic is fine (as long as not “discriminatory” against men, which doesn’t sound like it is)</p>
<p>I’ve heard a story about a young man who was applying to Yale who started a Young Republicans Club at his school. He was discouraged from writing an essay about his passion for this club because Yale has a reputation for being pretty liberal. He wrote his essay about why he chose to write an essay about being in this YR Club, and got into Yale. The moral of the story is, don’t consider what is “appropriate” and what isn’t. As long as you don’t disparage anyone (as the poster above me mentioned) and be yourself, it seems like a cool essay topic to me. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>There is no bad topic, just bad treatments of topics. </p>
<p>You can write an essay about gender in a cliche and impersonal way, or you can write it well. You can write an essay about being a Republican in a polemical or closed-minded way, or you can write it well.</p>