is this a great common app topic?

ADad
Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:48:04 +0000

There are NO cliche topics.

There are only cliche treatments of topics.

One the ten or so best essays I ever read, and I have read hundreds, was about community service in a foreign country.

Your best topic is the one that allows you to write the most personal, detailed, specific, revealing essay. The essay that, ideally, is so you that no one else could write it.

There is excellent advice at:

[Essays, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va.](http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html)