Chance me: Rising senior applying ED

annabel101
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:23:51 +0000

Thank you so much for the insight. Very helpful!

Do you really think I should try to raise my ACT math score? Math obviously isn’t a subject I’m majoring in or getting certified to teach, so I didn’t think it would matter as much.

And yes, to answer your question, the trip to Brazil was (unfortunately) for a vacation. I went there to visit my best friend who had moved away some years prior, and who I had promised I would see again.

So, most likely I will go back to the drawing board for my essay. I have some other ideas, if you (or anyone else) wouldn’t mind looking at them:

-I can talk about the genetics test I had done to deepen my understanding in biology class, but that will be covered in one of my rec letters.

-I could discuss how my grandma, who dropped out of university because she got pregnant out of wedlock, has ironically become one of my greatest academic role models, how she piqued my interest in genealogy, and then how I likewise got her interested in genetics.

-I could take a more whimsical approach and talk about the time I made a working gumball machine out of cardboard in my middle school gifted program, and how that experience inspired me to want to become a gifted education teacher.

-Or I can write about how I come back to visit said gifted program every year, and how this year I was shadowing a teacher who had to leave in an emergency and I basically taught her class for her.

Let me know what you think!