<p>As a student considering transferring, would it be a bad idea to write my common app transfer essay mainly on the fact that being a queer woman at a school that, although quite liberal, I feel very segregated at?</p>
<p>Subjects rarely matter – it’s how you write them that trumps the underlying subject matter. A boring essay can be written about a profound topic. Conversely, a moving essay can be written about something mundane.</p>
<p>What is the prompt? Is your point that you are looking for a more integrated experience and culture in the new school? Or are you just showing that you don’t know how to integrate yourself into a ‘quite liberal student body’? Be aware of what impression you are making.</p>
<p>@T26E4- Eh I think that sure an awesome essay could be written about something that isn’t typical, let’s say Mario Kart for example and it’s very well written and grabs the readers attention, but on the other hand there is a mid-level writing paper on something like a person who geew up in poverty, homelessness and being sexually abused and despite all that made their way through college day by day struggling to make their own life better on search of a career in the public sector helping people.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that one is better written the top tier schools would much prefer to give the seat to the person who overcame major adversity and had the courage to write about it in their personal statement rather than the 10,000th person with a perfected personal statement about a topic that did grab their attention, but at the end of the day did not bring much diversity to their campus.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t you agree?</p>