If you are like me, which you may be or not be, you may have be fine with writing personal information on Common App, or even telling anecdotes about yourself, but the second you are told to write an essay about yourself, you have no clue what your story is. After all, the question of who you are can propose some of the scariest things, especially to a high school senior. You are continually asked what are you majoring in and you happen to say undecided the general reaction seems to be "Well that's fine too." Well of course it is fine, they wouldn't given me the option if it wasn't fine. But if you're lucky, sometimes you just know what you want to do with your life.
Even so, Deciding is hard. All of levels and forms of it. You probably don't know what you want for dinner or what to wear today, which totally makes sense because they are big decisions. But if deciding is not hard for you, don't worry you can still get help from me, just hold on. When it comes to deciding an essay topic, it can feel like you are deciding who you are and sometimes you just don't know who you are, because that question is evolving with you. Find something about you that makes you excited, that makes you feel original, that you wouldn't mind writing an essay about that you will rip to pieces editing. Just because you don't find yourself an interesting person does not mean you don't have a thing to write about.
An easy way to demolish this issue is by coming up with an anecdote that your classmate or other people may consider about you interesting. Like for myself, I would use something like being adopted and its implications or how I hard to worked to be in high school. Because as boring it may seem to you because you are you, someone like an admissions counselor hasn't heard your story yet and that is the most important thing you have to understand is when you are applying to colleges, remember to prove your worth, because once you are in college nobody knows your story, it is a real fresh start. Then it becomes your job finish your story on your journey.it is up you to write it. All the conversation topics are fresh, things you may have talked about in high school evolve in college so make your essay reflect what kind of student you'd be.
