How personal is too personal?

Circular
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:37:04 +0000

I would not personally do abuse as my main topic based off the tips from various colleges that I’ve read for my own essay. It’s not a good topic for three reasons:

it makes the reader uncomfortable, which is always bad

it most likely has been done many times before and is hard to do w/o being cliche

most of all, it seems like a plea for pity. Adcoms will not like that.

You could write a good essay around that topic, but it will be very very hard to pull off well in my honest opinion. And, if you are concerned about your parents knowing, for the record if I were an English teacher and some kid showed me an essay about him/her being abused, and then asked me not to tell the parents, I would have a hard time deciding whether or not to do so. Especially if I liked the kid. You should take advantage of the trustworthy, i.e. not six post essay hounds, CCers that read essays, like Anomaly. See what they say.

Good Luck!