Explain this to me please?

<p>[Liz</a> O’Neill: The 7 Worst Types Of College Admission Essays (Slideshow)](<a href=“The 7 Worst Types Of College Admission Essays (Slideshow) | HuffPost College”>The 7 Worst Types Of College Admission Essays (Slideshow) | HuffPost College)</p>

<p>Like what type of essay are they talking about? Are all metaphorical essays bad?</p>

<p>Bump. </p>

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<p>ZombieDante -</p>

<p>What Ms. O’Neil is saying is that essays that spend the better part of eternity describing a vague, trivial slice of life (such as the job of the authors desk chair, or the balance of flavors in spamoni) tend to be clich</p>