do you think they would prefer an emotional story with quotes and independent events, or a more factual statistical type thing that just ironically happens to be sad?
see if i go for the undertone thing then i have to miss out on telling the best stories. but if i just tell stories, then that's kind of all im doing, and after awhile that gets boring to read.
I wouldn't know because I wrote either very emotional ones or literally put shit on a paper and I got accepted to all the colleges I applied to.
I DO know that it should reflect your personality because that is the only part of the application you actually have control over.
too bad u didnt drop out of shcool and not go to college problem solved imo
it depends completely on the subject