<p>Prompt 1: Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.</p>
<p>I wrote about how I traveled to my home country of China last year and how that inspired me to major in applied mathematics.</p>
<p>Prompt 2: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?</p>
<p>I wrote about how I went to Mongolia (during the same trip as China), and how my community service there changed me and talked about what I learned about myself.</p>
<p>I’m worried that since both of my topics involve traveling abroad, especially since it was during the same trip, will that affect how the readers think of my essays?</p>