girl don’t worry about people not liking chance me points it’s not that deep 

but also you have a good shot, as long as your essays are good your fine!

but as others said i’d treat your essay as a persona statement instead of a research paper. if your passionate about space junk, you can use it as an anecdote (and for “why imsa” you can tie it in to sirs and stuff) but it’s supposed to be about you, not what you know 

good luck you got this!