<p>^ That’s true. I do not want mine to be all clich</p>
<p>You guys seem to have pretty interesting stuff, I have nothing to write about lol. Well, I kind of do, but they’re boring.</p>
<p>I know I probably should write about my depression/learning problems/social problems because without those I probably would be a normal, sane person. (For the first prompt and for the UC prompt). </p>
<p>However, I can’t write this stuff in 650 words. What the heck should I write about?</p>
<p>I think anything can be interesting if you write about it in an interesting way. There’s culture all around us. I wrote one of my essays about buying coffee at a gas station.</p>
<p>The only thing I have to write about so far is a role-playng, make-believe game I play with my sister. I’m worried it’ll sound too childish though.</p>
<p>I think I just found my safety. Good academics, amazing and modern campus in the city, and cheap.</p>
<p>@superstarlala</p>
<p>I actually like that idea, I had an idea of writing about a euthanasia experience at the vet hospital or holding a rabbit’s uterus in my hand after an ovariohysterectomy, and how cool it was and all that good stuff lol.</p>
<p>Maybe I should write about the day I got out of the hospital for depression, and not even mention my other problems in that. </p>
<p>Or, I guess I can write about when my request for accommodations for standardized test was rejected, and write out some memories about all my problems. And how I ended up getting a score which people outside of CC think is good. (Though I won’t mention CC, lol) on the SAT. There. That shows some personal growth… right? #notreally</p>
<p>I mean, I could try to write the other CA prompts, but it’ll be stupid since I have to write an essay the same as the 1st prompt for one of the UC essays. </p>
<p>I feel like this common app essay is going to be what kills me. Not just my stats. Ugh. I don’t even know why I’m applying to college anymore because everything about me sucks.</p>
<p>@Quidditch: Be careful with that. Some colleges may worry about how you’d cope with future college stressors, depending on how you write the essay.</p>
<p>Guys, I don’t know how to pare down my list…</p>
<p>Clark Uni (safety)
Skidmore College (safety)
UConn (safety)
Wake Forest (low match)
Boston College (match)
Brandeis Uni (match)
Oberlin College (match)
Carleton College (match/low reach)
Carnegie Mellon Uni (reach)
Vassar College (reach b/c of ~20% acceptance)
Wesleyan Uni (reach b/c of ~20% acceptance^)
Amherst College (high reach)
Brown Uni (high reach)</p>
<p>@Fantasy
You don’t think that could come off as childish. Like, this kid is 17, but is playing a game usually played by 5 YOs</p>
<p>Ugh. These essay questions are so bad. Why common app? Why???</p>
<p>@Tinny: Why don’t you like them?</p>
<p>@lldm21, yeah… The problem is I do need to address why my high school record is not the greatest. but it is pretty challenging to figure out what I need to mention and what I cannot, under any circumstances, reveal. Also I think your college list is fine. But then again, where I’m from it’s normal to apply to about 30 colleges.</p>
<p>@Quidditch: Oh god @___@.</p>
<p>The main thing is application costs and laziness; I don’t want to waste money, and I also don’t want to write 304380 million essays and supplements and what-have-you. Trying to get it down to about 8.</p>
<p>I won’t apply to colleges whose essay prompts I dislike. (Unfortunately, the Common App is its own thing. I think people take the prompts too literally, though.)
I write the essay and then decide whether I like it enough to bother applying. </p>
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<p>Of course it’s childish, but it’s better to be childish than arrogant, annoying, pretentious, etc. Which is how most college essays are.</p>
<p>I think maybe I’ll just mention my problems in the “additional info” section if they still have that. And write about something else in the common app. </p>
<p>@lldm21, yeah I totally agree about the cost and the increased number of essays. I’d say if you want to get it down to 8, use 2 safeties, 2 reaches, and 4 matches.</p>
<p>^ My parents are making me apply to six: two reaches, two matches and two safeties.</p>
<p>I’m having trouble paring down my list too! Skidmore, BC, Vassar, Wesleyan, Amherst, and Brown are on my list too! Along with UVM, Middlebury, Tufts, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Yale, possibly Barnard and/or Columbia, RISD… maybe Georgetown? Idk what I’m going to do, haha.</p>
<p>^ college buddies, let’s go >: )</p>
<p>BC was absolutely perfect… except everyone on campus was stereotypically preppy, and I’m also a little worried about the whole Catholic thing (I’m non-religious). Yesterday I talked to this guy who’s going into his sophomore year as a bio major, and he said that it isn’t as bad as it seems, but it’s definitely “not like NYU or something”. & he said that, except for on Sundays, the school’s Catholicism is very rarely a central part of daily life, and that it doesn’t bother him (he’s also non-religious).</p>
<p>Just sifted through all of my schools based on their offered majors… they all have everything that I want. /facepalm</p>
<p>@lldm21 Because I can’t adequately answer any of them. I’m trying to see what I can do with this central background story question, but my life is so anti-climatic. I might just move on to the space I’m content in question. <em>sigh</em></p>