Sure, you can write about yourself.
But a school can say, here’s an excuse maker…or here’s another resource we need that we don’t have enough of.
So that’s the flipside.
If you overcame something and are beyond it, it might be inspirational. But if you have or had something that sounds like an excuse, it could be crushing.
I’m sure you have lots of great things to write about - personally, I’d avoid that one.
But it could work…I don’t think anyone would, for example, discount a cancer survivor - whereas someone who got a bad grad because of covid or an undiagnosed learning disability - probably not going to garner sympathy…but may garner, I don’t want that person to become my problem.