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<p>Could be. My point is that (barring a few impossible topics), the topic is not a good predictor of whether an essay is going to be an asset to an application. Yes, it’s a challenge to take an essay about cars or something and use it to make a law school want you. But at the same time, how many different reasons do you think there are for wanting to be a lawyer? How many dozens of times per season do you think the typical admissions officer has to slog through what looks like the same essay he read an hour ago? “Safe” topics have their pitfalls, too.</p>