Homeless 4.0 transfer student

UniversalSnip
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:05:25 +0000

I agree with onmyway.

What you wrote in that last post is great stuff. It describes your past while framing everything in such a way as to illustrate who you are but remember to focus on the lessons you learned from each experience. Comedy is really putting yourself out there. Maybe you couldn’t handle it at the time, but it helped you get used to the idea of really going all in on something. That sort of thing. You probably have a lot of compelling stories in your life. Pick whichever ones you think are most interesting and zero in on the method of describing yourself, and describing yourself as growing through them, that I keep laying out here.

As far as everything riding on the essay, the minds of admissions officers are inscrutable, so who knows how they weigh other things, but in addition to keeping perfect grades you need to start figuring out letters of recommendation and connecting with teachers who are old hands, asap.

Open up the common app and you’ll see you have more essay room than you think.

It is very unlikely you both would get into the same school. However some of these places will take you to another level of life possibilities. I’m being real with you here. They’re like taking an express elevator a hundred floors up. It’s not just the financial aid. If you visit one of them with the eye for education you’ve developed, you will immediately understand.

My background is like this: difficult early family history with one parent being an in and out of the picture addict, single working mother, dropped out of high school to work at 16, did so for quite some time, then both reconnected with my father and went back to school and discovered I loved math at roughly the same time.

I know when everything didn’t go right when you were growing up, and you find out you can be really good at school later in life, it can be frustrating to think of the wasted opportunities. But don’t think of yourself as having a negative background. Your experiences might be hard on you but they can make you an asset to the students at the school you transfer to. Use the lessons of your shitty past to impart good thinking to other people.