Which of the following topics should I use for my personal statement?

<p>Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?
-Getting 3 B+’s in sophomore year (Showed me I had potential ->started trying harder)
-First time trading stocks (Had fun –> inspired business aspirations)
-Huge admiration and care for animals (Huge sympathy -> caring personality/want to help)</p>

<p>I want to major in either computers or business so I know the last one is a bit irrelevant…</p>

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<p>DO NOT write about getting B+'s in your sophomore year, that is the most typical thing anyone could put in an essay and result in the admissions officer pushing the reject button in 5 seconds.</p>

<p>I would pick the first time trading stocks, but make it a much more profound experience. Say that learning about investing in the future changed the way you look at life and how fragile it is or something like that.</p>

<h1>2 and #3 are good choices for writing a essay since there’s a lot of potential. For #3, you would have to be more specific…did you lead an animal club…save a injured animal etc… and how it relates to what you want to do and influence you as a person. Sorry, but I laughed when I saw #1…getting 3 B+s in sophomore year and talking about it in a essay just sounds really…weird</h1>

<h1>3 please! :wink: and also #2! :smiley: Try to write the essays in a dialogue type to a fiction type of story form. It completely works ( at least it did for me :slight_smile: . Try to add small sentences about what you learned from your experience,but write it in a story type of form like showing what you learned about life through writing the experience. #2 and #3 are really GOOD essay topics! Don’t do #1. It’s not original ;( Sorry</h1>

<p>I like #2 and #3 the best. Remember to be specific and list examples and what you got out of it.</p>

<h1>1 seems weird. Are you trying to say that you got the your worst grades that semester and then improved? If that’s the case, you could just mention it BRIEFLY under “Additional Comments” and WHY you got your bad grades (ex: illness, event, not prepared for the AP courses idk). Don’t come off as whiny though.</h1>

<p>I don’t think B+s are bad grades that justify additional comments such as “not being prepared for AP courses”. Even emphasizing that you got B+s and they were bad just makes you sound…a bit pretentious (unless there was a big life event). I had a couple of Cs and I did not even bring it up at all. </p>

<p>Thank you all so much!</p>