<p>Dearest CC,
I have thought of a few essay topics that I may want to write for the Common App:</p>
<p>The Meaning of Love</p>
<p>The Power of Giving (something small–>big impact)</p>
<p>Are these wayyy off for a college essay?
Criticism is welcome.</p>
<p>Thanks,
bryan</p>
<p>They seem ridiculously clich</p>
<p>no
first of all those topics are not about yourself
second of all you’re supposed to write about something small and not improtant and make it important</p>
<p>the previous posters are right. neither of these would be good essay topics unless you’re an astonishingly brilliant writer (which you might well be, we don’t know ^.^) and can make them personal. </p>
<p>I wrote my common app essay on the swingset in my backyard and got accepted or waitlisted into all the colleges I applied to (and they weren’t upper podunk state either :p). From what I’ve read the admissions monkeys like to see small deep slivers of your life rather than a highschooler trying to take on ridiculously enormous and vague cliches, because to be honest we’re all too young to write coherent essay on teh power of wuv.</p>