Common App: Essay #2

College Essays
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<li> Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.</li>
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<p>I was thinking of writing about the American health care system and how it often leaves families with limited possibilities. Specifically, I wanted to talk about how a family member was turned away from medical treatment due to a lack of medical insurance.</p>

<p>I was particularly drawn to this because I felt that it was a topic I could really write about with interest. What are your thoughts? Does this sound too generic?</p>

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<p>If you some how relate the incident to how it changed/affected you significantly, then you’ll be fine. Just make sure that it is not a research paper and is personal.</p>

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<p>Well, healtchare could be a hot topic and a lot of people could potentially be writing about it.</p>