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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading this thread I still feel like I have no idea what they are supposed o write about or not write about.  My kid spends a lot of time on a sport they are not very good at —- it was a lifeline during the covid shutdown and so they became very invested in that community.  But I guess that’s terrible to write about?  She does have interesting thoughts but like most teenagers, they are on pretty circumscribed topics — eg why Snapchat is bad, how HS should be different than what it is, political viewpoints, etc.  [/quote]

Both my kids wrote an essay about a favorite work of art/media/literature  that had an impact on them and the lesson/insight they learned from it.   
Both were accepted everywhere (each had a balanced list of schools) and now attend a well-ranked SLAC and a top state university.

The advice they got from their English teacher (who assigned this and helped them edit) was to "not write about the time you tore your ACL".  Apparently that was the overdone topic at their (pretty sporty) HS.[/quote]

Any time you can write about something that 50%+ of the applicants are not doing is beneficial.  Your goal is to catch someone's attention, so it needs to be unique to you and genuine.  Even then, it's still a crap shoot at a top school....but they definately don't want to read more basic sports stories. [/quote]

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