How personal is too personal on essays?

mikoylo
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 23:09:14 +0000

For those less than creative essay prompts that ask about your hardships and coming of age stories, how much do they actually want to know? Especially for UC essays since they’re very generic and I don’t have too many life changing moments to pick from except some that may be a bit heavy for a college application.