<p>One of the essay options for the Common App is “Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.”</p>
<p>The AIDS epidemic is of extreme importance to me, seeing as I originally come from a country where the virus is extremely prevalant. </p>
<p>I’m wondering if writing my essay on AIDS and the fight for a cure, and how I plan to one day go back to my home country (Nigeria) and work on helping to put an end to AIDs in the country would be a good idea?</p>
<p>Would it make me sound like I’m aiming for an unrealistically high goal? Would it be too cliche? I’m really not sure, it is something I’m very passionate about though.</p>