<p>title says it all. An essay about music or an essay about sport. (though i think the number of essays on sport has decreased significantly after people start to think sport-themed essays are cliche)</p>
<p>Whichever one you are more passionate about. There are great qualities in both music (such as perseverance, analytical skills, team work, self-devotion, tolerance) and activities (leadership, teamwork, endurance, stamina, etc.) you could write about.</p>
<p>Neither of them will be cliche if you remember to single yourself out. =]</p>
<p>i’m already done with college applications so i’m not worried about that. </p>
<p>I mean, in general, which one is more common? i’m curious.</p>
<p>Hard question…perhaps music? My reasoning is that the majority of music majors will write/include/reference to their time in an orchestra where as an athlete may not mention sports in his essay because he was not caption, or because he was second-third string.</p>
<p>Definitely music (choir and band essays are plentiful, wrote one myself). For many students applying, sports=jocks=no no.</p>
<p>don’t you think admission officers get sick of all these music essays</p>
<p>No, they seem to adore music essays.</p>
<p>if you can say something different about music or sports than what the next person would say, write it. my philosophy with colleges so far has been to come up with 4-5 good ideas for essays that i think of right off the bat, and to throw them all out because chances are high that most people will think from that angle. then i take one of the next few ideas.</p>
<p>the point is, do anything as long as it’s different and will stand out among 290348320942 applicants.</p>
<p>i wrote mine on something else so it doesn’t really apply to me. </p>
<p>But i’m wondering, why is an essay about sport usually frowned upon whereas people love an essay about music? This seems stupid to me, because a lot of music essays i read are about just how much they love music and they “feel” the music.</p>