<p>I wrote on the tell about the world you come from one. Frankly I don’t think I’ve had to deal with that much adversity in my life to pick the other one.</p>
<p>essay A all the way! I might end up using it for my common app essay too.</p>
<p>Essay A, I think I answered it pretty well. :)</p>
<p>I really wish I answered Essay A. I forgot I skipped a grade… i could of written such a better essay on it… oh well. If I get deferred can I change my essays?</p>
<p>Skipping a grade is the end of the world?
Anyways, I picked essay A</p>
<p>Wow, lots of Essay A’s. I thought there’d be less of them.</p>
<p>That said, Essay A. :)</p>
<p>gyros: yeah, I bet you can, but I remember reading somewhere they don’t recommend it… I could be wrong though</p>
<p>I went with Essay B.</p>
<p>essay a for me…wrote about my parents divorce. sure, a little cliche and maybe unoriginal, but it was a very real, life-changing event in my life.</p>
<p>Well… if you skip a grade you leave everyone behind that you knew and it feels like a totally different environment. At least for me.</p>
<p>Essay B for me…although the way I see it, it looks like it contains both A and B…I don’t know…just my opnion…
:)</p>
<p>Essay A–my younger brother’s autism and how it’s changed me</p>
<p>Essay A- how I loved basketball for so many years but got cut from the school team and used that to find track which I excel at.</p>
<p>Essay A- how I loved basketball for so many years but got cut from the school team and used that to find track which I excel at.</p>
<p>I couldn’t turn in my Essay A. I wrote an essay about my house burning up (only half of it did) last year and the “adversity” but it sounded so fake, given 1 billion people don’t have clean water and 840 million don’t have enough food to eat. I can see how some people might be able to balance an explaination for how something was adverse with an optimism of perserverence, but I can’t strike that balance, not to my liking anyway. And I’ve never been a fan of self-serving essays to start with, though I can’t put down some brilliant writes an can find that balance (Orwell, Epstein, etc.). </p>
<p>I figured I’d be better represented talking about “my world,” after all it reflects who I am–where do I stand with respect to it, what is my place in it, and specifically how did I get where I am because of it.</p>
<p>Plus, as Wittgenstein famously wrote, “1. The world is everything that is the case” and “7. What we cannot speak of, we must pass over in silence.” I don’t know anything about “the end of the world” so I’ll pass that one over in silience.</p>
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<p>Haha. I almost wrote Essay A about skipping several grades (would have been really easy to dramatize it), but then decided that it really wasn’t all that horrible and end-of-the-world-ish and so wrote about it under the Essay B prompt.</p>
<p>I wrote an essay A that was making fun of the essay topic, I really took a risk on the essay in hopes it would stand out; I alluded to South Park like 5 times and swore twice</p>
<p>haha nalcon, make sure you let us know if you get admitted :D</p>
<p>Essay A: my best friend committed suicide during my 10th grade year 
but it was a really powerful essay imo</p>
<p>nalcon idk how that could look good by making fun of the essay topic, idk if you want to sound like a jerk to them or not</p>
<p>trying to be cute just means the quality of your writing better be that much better</p>