[The Yugoslavian]

The subject you write your essay on shouldn't make or break your chances. It is exactly how you fit into the subject. Hell, I wrote about how I made 9 year olds cry and I got in to every school I applied for.

I think Raptor and Lori get this while that MBA dude's thinking is way too uptight.

Through playing poker, what have you learned about yourself so far? What are the essential components for being a great poker player? What have you learned so far about life via poker?

I am confident I could write an essay on any of these questions and it would fly fine. Also, once you get an interview with the school you applied to then you will have something you are clearly passionate about to talk to.

Just be sure that your insight goes deeper than the surface so that the reader won't make the mistake of thinking 'damn useless addict...[whatever].'

I have a friend who wrote his college essay about how much he hated the pottery class he was currently in b/c he only did it so he could give gifts to friends/family (and not pay for gifts) and b/c he thought it'd be almost no work. He got into the schools he applied to as well. So you could do much, much worse here.

Yugoslav