Too "excuse-y?"

guineagirl96
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 21:13:13 +0000

This is a really bad topic. Writing about mental illness, including eating disorders can get you rejected. With all the backlash schools get about suicide rates, they don’t want to admit people who they think might be unstable. It doesn’t matter if you’ve recovered; to them, you have a risk of relapsing with the pressure of college.

I’m not saying that is how you actually are, but that is how colleges perceive essays like this. Choose a different topic.

And to the above poster, there is nothing inherently wrong with a positive hardship essay dealing with something you are born with. However, eating disorders, depression, and mental illness are not appropriate topics.