<p>is writing about quitting a sport too dangerous?</p>
<p>The topic should give an insight into who you are. If quitting a sport shows you as a person who gives up on things, or is defeated by a challenge, or is a quitter, then I think you know the answer to your question.</p>
<p>An essay needs a “story arc” (character development) that shows how an incident (quitting?) led to a better you, a more confident you, a STRONGER you! That is what you want to show in the essay.</p>
<p>----Robert Cronk, author of Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essays [Second Edition]</p>
<p>Hi, writing an essay on quitting things is the last thing to do. In my opinion, avoid it. Or if you are so confident that you can pull out with something like that, I mean the story line or development, then its not a bad idea. My dad used to say this that, it is better to remember someone who dies trying to swim an ocean than giving up.</p>
<p>It actually may not be a bad idea. Like digmedia said, your essay should reflect something personal about you that otherwise would not have been gleaned from your application. If you can tell your story in a unique, interesting way–if you can explain why exactly you quit, and if you had a good reason, then by all means, go for it!</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure someone on the UVA forum wrote about her hatred towards chemistry. I guess this could work, but you’d have to write it very well.</p>
<p>The content is much more important than the topic. A great topic can sink if the essence is not well written, and a mediocre topic can shine if brilliantly executed.</p>
<p>Sounds interesting. I think it’s very important to be unique and stand out in your essays; writing about quitting a sport would probably give you a boost in this regard. But I would recommend you have your teachers/parents/friends/guidance counselor read it, to make sure it doesn’t make you out to be a quitter.</p>
<p>I would avoid treating the topic casually or being overly dramatic about it (“I found my life’s passion and simply didn’t have time for the trifles of high school sports!”). Frame it as part of an evolving person, and it could work.</p>
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<p>lol, I wrote about this (and getting lost in my car). There’s some serious proof that topic doesn’t matter haha.</p>