Sorry if I should've posted this over in /r/CollegeEssayReview, it just seemed more like that was for completed essay advice. I'd appreciate some feedback on topics I've been pondering for the commonapp (or supplemental) essays.

I haven't really tailored any to the commonapp prompts; these are just some preliminary ideas. I'd really appreciate some feedback on what you think would make for a good, unique essay. I care about all of my topics and I'm shooting for schools like Harvard, Bowdoin, Pomona, the Stanford that doesn't exist, etc.

• Possible topic 1: Talking about my involvement in an atypical language organization/national club and analyzing why its welcoming, strange culture only seems to exist with that language (talking about Latin, by the way)- this club has been a large part of my life since about 7th grade and I have a lot of recent awesome experiences to draw from. I would obviously go more into depth explaining its specific culture.

• Possible topic 2: my involvement in a nationally recognized leadership camp (as in, a national syllabus, many different local camps around the US with the same name) that I've staffed for the last two years and am running next year. It's a boy scout camp (I'm not a boy scout) and it's been awesome every year. An older friend of mine claims she wrote her essay on this and it helped her get into Yale. I know that doesn't really mean much since our essays will be totally different. I have an essay I wrote last year about my participant year at the camp that I can draw from to help me as well.

• Possible topic 3: Writing about how I love to connect with people (usually over the internet) by sending them letters or drawings or stickers, etc. If I wrote about this I might include how I participated in the Reddit Secret Santa Exchange, and also how I met my first boyfriend online and began meeting with him (with permission) and how it really opened me up as a person to have relationship that don't start online-- not really sure about including the whole boyfriend thing since I don't want to make my essay about romantic relationships.

• Possible topic 4: my involvement in theater over the years and how it's allowed me to be more myself through not being myself. not sure how cliche this one would be, since I'm sure lots of people write about how acting gave them confidence.

• Possible topic 5: how I'm obsessed with puzzle solving. Childhood was filled with games like Nancy Drew, books filled with riddles and brain teasers like The Mysterious Benedict Society, sudoku puzzles, straight up riddle books, ISpy and spot the difference games, how Escape Rooms were/are my childhood dreams come true, etc. I just love love love solving mind puzzles (not jig-saw puzzles). Maybe I could expand into how it's translated into a love of real problem solving, a la "fit a square peg into a round hole"? I like math mostly for the thrill of finding a solution, etc.

Thoughts? Advice? Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this.