Chance me (Andover

principalviola
Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:40:51 +0000

You’re in the running. I don’t see anything that would make the adcom rush into Jane Fried’s office yelling at her to read the application. That is not a bad thing, many people do not have this luxury, but it certainly helps. Where lies your passion?



My parents immigrated around 15 years ago from ukraine and started from nothing. As of now we are middle-upper middle class. I don’t know how this could help at all… other then writing an essay about hardships my parents faced to make a good life for me or something of the sorts. Could this possibly make me stand out?

While I am just a little grain in a beach, it would be my sincere advise not to write about this. Write about your passion and who you are. Your essay should play a movie of who you are in your adcom’s head. When he sees you on the grounds he should be like “oh yeah, I know that personality…” I, for a while, was thinking about writing something similar, but how does that define who I am? It defines who my parents may be, but what defines me lays somewhere else/