Is this a "sob story"?

ephemeralparadox
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:48:26 +0000

First post here, but a long time lurker.
I’m not expecting much response, but just one reader would be a tremendous help!

When I first started, I wasn’t writing a college app essay. It was more or less a journal entry about a very, very recent personal event.

I never considered submitting this essay because it seemed too much like a typical “sob story”. But my classmates gave very favorable reviews to this essay in an anonymous college app essay activity.

I haven’t decided yet where I would submit this and whether I should even submit it in the first place.