<p>I’m in the process of writing my common app personal essay for the second time now (changed my mind about first idea). Do you think that writing about my lacking a sense of smell, and the impact of that on my life would make a good essay? I feel like it would, but I’m unsure about my judgment. </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Often adults lose their sense of smell because of complications of surgery or other problems, but I have never heard of a young person lacking the sense of smell. I would think that your observations could be quite interesting. I have heard that the sense of smell is the most closely tied to our memories; those of us with the sense know what Grandma’s house and Grandma herself smell like and long after Grandma is gone we are reminded of her when we get a whiff of her perfume on someone else.</p>
<p>I think that if you can pull it off in an interesting manner, the admissions counselor could be passing your essay around asking: “Did you know this?” Good luck. You have my curiosity up.</p>
<p>That sounds pretty cool for a topic.
I think you may have a chance of pulling it off, like MD Mom said.
Good luck!</p>