<p>I don’t have a lot of great ideas for my common app so i was contemplating writing about when I ran for NHS secretary. Essentially,I thought I had no chance of winning and figured the only chance I had was to do something funny. My speech was the Kevin G. rap from Means Girls but the lyrics were set to me and the secretary position. People assume I’m a straight-laced, studious Indian girl, so they thought my speech was hilarious since it was so opposite of what was expected and I won. I could make my essay fun and quirky(hopefully) and I think it would say how I am more than meets the eye and am willing take risks, etc. I’m hesitant, however because I have no idea if the people reading my essay will get the reference or the humor in terms of Mean Girls? What is your opinion guys?</p>
<p>bump…i really need to start writing something, i’m just unsure whether this is a good direction to go in</p>
<p>It’s quite likely that the admission counselors won’t get the Mean Girls reference, but you can probably say you used a generic rap or whatever. But then again isn’t this the typical tale of a person who thought they couldn’t do something, so they tried to be unique, and succeeded? I feel that’s how admissions will see it if they don’t understand Mean Girls</p>
<p>What worked in a speech with students who know you well may be difficult to pull of in writing for an audience that doesn’t have a preconceived idea of who you are. I would write a rough draft of what you have in mind and show the essay to a 20/30-something adult and see if they find the essay humorous.</p>
<p>Consider your audience. Thats all i can say</p>
<p>the only other thing i can think of writing about is my trip to India which had a huge impact on me as visiting my family helped to pull me out of depression. im afraid that it would be viewed as a cliche essay though…is this a better choice to go with?</p>
<p>You can write a wonderful essay about any topic; you can also write a horrible essay about the same topic. As so much depends on WHAT you say and HOW you say it, you cannot judge whether one topic will be better than another without writing a first draft of each essay.</p>
<p>When my kids applied to college, each of them wrote about 10 to 12 essays on different topics (with full rewrites and edits) before deciding which topic to ultimately submit to colleges. You need to do the same thing. There isn’t an easy short-cut that I know of that allows you to magically pick a topic and have it become a wonderful essay without first going through the often painful process of writing it all down on paper.</p>
<p>I think the NHS essay would stick out to the readers more than one about your trip to India. I would just start writing, and then when you revise it make sure it would make sense to someone who has never seen Mean Girls.</p>
<p>alright i will write it and see how it turns out with other readers</p>
<p>It sounds like it could be a good topic, but I saw Mean Girls and I didn’t get the reference or know who Kevin G is, so you’d have to make sure the reader would understand from your content.</p>
<p>Trip to India could be good, but the teenagers and depression thing is definitely overdone and I wouldn’t go there. </p>
<p>I think writing 10 or 15 essays with full edits is way overkill, though admirable Don’t feel you have to do that. But trying a couple to see how they develop is a must. Doing some drafts then picking a couple to work on. Most kids don’t have good essays, that I can see. And this seems to be due to putting too little effort into it.</p>
<p>So just start writing, already, and use the writing process to develop ideas and see where it takes you. You write by putting pen to paper, not just thinking things up in your head.</p>
<p>Consider your audience, maybe s</p>