Best Essay Topics (List)

College Essays
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<p>In your opinion, what are the best essay topics? </p>

<p>Feel free to come up with your own. You may quote prompts in their entirety but mention the school in parentheses. If your choice is already on the list, add a tally next to it. You are free to post more than one prompt.</p>

<p>The following list is supposed to be ongoing, so copy and paste the entire list before adding your choice.</p>

<li>“In the film, Rashomon, four characters provide vastly different accounts of the same event. Describe a time when you viewed something differently from others. What did you learn from that experience?” (Northwestern) (I)</li>
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<li><p>“In the film, Rashomon, four characters provide vastly different accounts of the same event. Describe a time when you viewed something differently from others. What did you learn from that experience?” (Northwestern) (I)</p></li>
<li><p>“Topic of Your Choice” (Common App)</p></li>
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<li><p>“In the film, Rashomon, four characters provide vastly different accounts of the same event. Describe a time when you viewed something differently from others. What did you learn from that experience?” (Northwestern) (I)</p></li>
<li><p>“Topic of Your Choice” (Common App)</p></li>
<li><p>“You have just completed your 300 page autobiography. Please submit page 217.” (Penn)</p></li>
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<li><p>“In the film, Rashomon, four characters provide vastly different accounts of the same event. Describe a time when you viewed something differently from others. What did you learn from that experience?” (Northwestern) (I)</p></li>
<li><p>“Topic of Your Choice” (Common App)</p></li>
<li><p>“You have just completed your 300 page autobiography. Please submit page 217.” (Penn)</p></li>
<li><p>If you could pose for a formal oil portrait in the style of Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors, what possessions would surround you and why? (Northwestern - short (50 word))</p></li>
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<li><p>“In the film, Rashomon, four characters provide vastly different accounts of the same event. Describe a time when you viewed something differently from others. What did you learn from that experience?” (Northwestern) (I)</p></li>
<li><p>“Topic of Your Choice” (Common App)</p></li>
<li><p>“You have just completed your 300 page autobiography. Please submit page 217.” (Penn)</p></li>
<li><p>If you could pose for a formal oil portrait in the style of Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors, what possessions would surround you and why? (Northwestern - short (50 word))</p></li>
<li><p>“What did you do last Sunday?” (500 characters / 7 lines - NYU Stern)</p></li>
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