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Common App Nixes ‘Topic of Your Choice’

The Bowdoin Daily Sun posted about updates to the Common App, including the loss of the “topic of your choice” essay option.

Here’s 25 essays that I’m hypothesizing led to the “topic of your choice” nix:
1. More In formation Than You Ever Wanted To Know About My Parent’s Divorce
2. What ‘Teeth’ Taught Me About Gender Empowerment
3. Putting My Dog To Sleep
4. How I Learned To Appreciate Being White
5. What I Did On My Last Snow Day
6. The First Time I Was High
7. My Cousin’s Best Friend’s Dad Is Gay
8. My Sister’s Pregnancy Scare
9. When I Got Cut From The Soccer Team In 7th Grade
10. What I Learned From ‘South Park’
11. My First Black Friend
12. Why I Identify As ‘Elderly’
13. What Disney Taught Me About Anthropomorphism
14. Thoughts On Paris
15. That Time I Walked In On My Parents
16. Words Of Wisdom From My Babysitter
17. My Second Favorite Holiday Is Easter
18. My Muslim Half Friend
19. The First Time Someone Called Me ‘Rich’
20. Living With Halitosis
21. Putting My Horse To Sleep
22. Facts That I Know About Africa
23. When My Mom Got Impeached From Town Council
24. A Letter To Whoever Left That Condom In My Treehouse
25. Rant About The College Admissions Process