Colleges did not really want to know everything about me, but were only out to discover my good qualities. For instance, if I submitted an essay on how my life changed when I got out of drug rehabilitation or how I my greatest influence is a high school dropout, I would reveal a weakness in my personality. Shameful personality traits are pieces of my life that would have misguided the effectiveness of my essays.

When I finally got down to writing my admissions essays, I managed to create several essays that both displayed my greatest character traits, and failed to disclose my shameful side. What confuses me is how all the admissions prompts were always geared towards topics that required me to write about my "greatest" or "inspiring" traits. If a college really wanted to know what kind person I real

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