Type is really important for college auditions. You want to find monologues that fit your age/sex/type. It is really fun to be a young caucasian woman playing Othello against type when you are in college or are a member of a really cool theatre collective, but when you are in the audition room for college they want to see YOU, they know you are not a polished actor at this point – they want to see your personality and physicality and then they will decide if they need your type for the upcoming class. This is why on all the college sites they will ask you not to use an accent and to pick a monologue that is believable and that you connect with. This being said, you can still find really fun, different monologues that you can pull off – always be on the look out for new plays/playwrights. My d did a monologue from a play that was having its world premiere in our mid sized town. It then moved to off broadway. Many of the auditors knew the playwright, but not the play. It was very well received and it fit my d’s type and she loved it (which made performing it hundreds of times bearable!.)