<p>i’m an international.</p>
<p>i’m writing in my essay about how while living overseas, i’ve grown even more nationalistic and devoted to my home country. From an American university’s point of view, would this reflect badly on me, because they want someone who will give something back to the US? </p>
<p>i don’t want them to think “Oh, this kids is going to fly back to _____ once he has his diploma. We don’t want him. NEXT!”</p>
<p>What do you people think??</p>
<p>They want foreign students to be foreign. The way to return what they have given you is to do your best for the college, adding variety, work, and talent. At least that essay would show that you are not of of those applying to live in USA for ever; emigration is a poor reason to study abroad. Besides that, in some part of the visa proceedings you must promise that you will come back to your country once you get your diploma.</p>
<p>Depends how much it means to you and how honestly it comes across. If it is something important to you, write it, but bear in mind to get across positive aspects - not ‘now this is the only country I will ever like, I have no time for the riff raff that is America’ etc etc. Clearly an exaggeration, but hopefully you get my drift.</p>
<p>If however you can think of something less ‘controversial’ that is more important to you, I strongly recommend you do that topic instead.</p>
<p>What this essay could put across about you is that when you are in certain countries - including new ones - you begin to appreciate their differences and all that crap and just inevitably grow attached to them. And that’s why you want to come to America. lol.</p>
<p>what country is this? you won’t die from telling us</p>
<p>i promise</p>
<p>He posted he was accepted in the University of Chicago ED; a Korean living in Bangladesh.</p>
<p>Harvard takes pride in educating students who’ll be future leaders in a variety of fields and countries. For instance, Pakistan’s first woman prime minister was a Harvard grad, Benazir Bhutto.</p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t just want students who’ll eventually give back to the U.S.</p>
<p>wait a moment. you are accepted ED to chicago? then why the hell are you asking if you can get into harvard??? you are bound to attend uchicago</p>
<p>“He posted he was accepted in the University of Chicago ED; a Korean living in Bangladesh.”</p>
<p>Whoa, this posting thing is relatively new for me and it’s kind of freaky the way people can go through your postings and find out about you. I don’t like that… especially since I’m probably the only Korean in Bangladesh posting on CC lol. but as a matter of fact, Chicago is EA so it’s non-binding, and although I’d love to go there as a econ major I’d really prefer to have some aid. Harvard certainly offers a lot of that, need-blind to int’l. (though that’s not the only reason I’m applying, of course!)</p>
<p>ANYWAYS, thank you everyone who replied to my question. I am certainly not going to say anything like “I hate america” lol…I kinda had what Northstarmom said in my mind, but I wanted some confirmation to ease my nerves. THANKS!</p>
<p>yeah ky07 CHicago doesnt even have ED.</p>
<p>Hehehe…truely sorry, I didn’t mean to freak you out 
And about ED and EA, I’m not really familiarized with the terminology; just wanted to say he was accepted in Chicago. Those short posts are always prone to misunderstanding; I should refrain from them.</p>
<p>EA=early action=non-binding
ED=early decision=binding</p>
<p>Aha, I’m Bengali (although I live in Canada). How do you like the corruption, poverty, rancid smell, and whatnot?</p>
<p>;_;</p>
<p>and dying babies everywhere? ahh, i really hate it when people who can’t afford to raise their kids having like 20 of them. so pathetic… if you can’t feed your children, don’t have kids!</p>
<p>wow innocentstalker, where are u from?? I’m quite shocked by ure attitude…maybe it’s because living here just opened my eyes a bit more, i don’t know, but don’t they teach you in Human Geography or some class that crude birth rate is high in impoverished countries because they are poor? these “third-world countries”(LDC’s to be politically correct) usually have low literacy rates, especially among women. Low literacy rate has the most direct correlation to birth rates, because they DON’T KNOW the importance of family planning, contraceptives, and whatnot. Please, if you’ve spent even half a day in the slums here, you would never call them “pathetic”. Sorry if I seem to have over-reacted. Living in Bangladesh changes you. (most ppl anyway)</p>
<p>and illuminar: yeah the corruption and smell sucks. but at least we’re not #1 on AI’s corruption list anymore lol(#3 i believe). and the smell…well, what can I say. I’ve grown used to it. It smells like home XD. oh and my best friend(bengali) lives in Missassagua(idk how u spell it). u wouldn’t happen to know him, would u? lol</p>
<p>if you are going to excuse that kind of behavior because of the low literacy rates, go ahead. some things in life you simply cannot condone. having babies and letting them die is one. guess what? some parents would actually take away the relief rations apportioned to their children and eat them themselves! this certainly only applies to some, but it’s pathetic on the part of these adults no matter what. </p>
<p>also, just because i did not graduate from high school does NOT mean that i should not be reprimanded for running around and murdering people</p>
<p>Our yellow media likes to publicize those few cases, and unfortunately people think that they are more rampant than they are. And education is the strongest correlation with number of children had. I am a big womens rights supporter and must say coming from a developing country that is doing much better in the passed 15 years, lots of women do not have the choices, sexually and culturally to abstain from such practices or make their own decisions, especially in famine stricken villages where it will taker generations to bring even the lowest levels of education and even slightly improve womens positions. No one excuses atrocious behavior but one must think within those peoples daily context and struggle for existence. It is easy for us to make comments from where we live and decry their behavior but most of us have never felt even slight hunger, never mind starvation. the reality is that the majority of the world will never even have a chance to work towards what we have and we must understand, empathize, and work for change.</p>
<p>^^ and from economics we know that without first limiting population, africa cannot develop. for there to be development, there needs to be investment. for there to be investment, there needs to be national saving. how can there be saving? have less babies, and actually feed the ones you have. i read that some africans refuse to practice contraception due to religious reasons. i personally believe that’s bogus. right, follow God by not using condoms, but then have sex out of wedlock and then take the children’s food.</p>
<p>Its not that simple. About not using contraception and religious reasons, actually that is a result of many AMERICAN missionary missions who teach only absence based sex education and influence transnational health organizations to limit certain types of contraception and sex ed. I most definitely agree that the problems are economic, but villagers have no real say in these political matters, they are the result of corruption in government that lead to worsened conditions for the people. Everything is circumstantial, and making brazen all-encompassing statements like “follow God by not using condoms, but then have sex out of wedlock and then take the children’s food,” is not a critical evaluation of the real issue. i recommend a book called “Letter to a Christian Nation” by Sam Harris, it is very brief and mentions Africa and contraception use as well as many other issues. i understand that you feel strongly for the welfare of these children, but that passion must be channeled not as anger against people but as action against the current world order that economically and politically suppresses these countries by policies intent on helping but offer nothing more than more problems. Foreign investment is key to the development of any nation and there are numerous countries that are developing as a result. But there can be no major economic investment in Africa when there is so little infrastructure, right now companies are unwilling to invest in such a risky venture where the return on profits may not only be small, but not come for a long time. Corporations can make more money quicker if they exploit places in Eurasia rather than attempting to invest in Africa. But really, evaluate America’s role in the world, besides Africa look at Latin America, in which American policy has stifled the growth of many of the nations. I think that it should be acknowledged that these types of issues to do with something like use of condoms, might appear simple, but in fact there are geopolitical, cultural and economical reasons behind all these seemingly easily solved problems. </p>
<p>Also in a conversation I had with a professor at UVA (I live in Virginia), he predicted that the world’s population will double in the next century and a half but by the year 2250 that it will come back to today’s number. Why? Because that is the time believed that it would take to educate the masses in population hot spots such as India, Africa, and China.</p>
<p>Such a lively discussion! 
Thanks for reading this whole post, and anyone feel free to comment. thanks!</p>
<p>OP… if i were you i would try to find a different theme to write about, unless you feel really strongly that you are coming across well… If Bangladesh had any schools that Americans were applying to, and the American student talked about how much he loved the United States, it wouldn’t work.</p>