Struggling on a topic for Stanford

College Essays
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For the “Reflect on a time when you felt genuinely excited about learning” Prompt.

  1. My lost media channel and how I’ve spent countless hours on it and found lost gameplay, interviewed Emmy and Grammy winning people, etc etc. I learned how to work with others and look forward to discovering more.
  2. (I used this for my Stanford humanities essay and got in, which is why I’m so conflicted) How I found out my best friend said the N word (she’s white) and I found an interest in learning the history behind racial slurs and overall my interest in my major (sociology)

Please feel free to help me out, I’ve already written out the lost media one, but I don’t know if I should change it.
If relevant, here are my stats

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What does this mean? What did you get in to? Was it the summer humanities program?

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Yes, SSHI! It was for racial identity in the American imagination

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Both topics seem perfectly fine to write an essay about, so I think it’s whichever essay/topic you’re happier with. As part of a larger application, I’m wondering if you’ve already written about #1? If not, I think it does show more self-directed learning, but again either is fine. I would not worry about reusing a topic that you used for a summer program.

Good luck! Hoping you followed the advice of your other thread and added some target schools :).

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