Indicating hardships (plz help!!!)

perpetualmotion
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:10:55 +0000

When I immigrated w/my parents to US when i was 8, my parents didn’t earn income for almost three years. after that, my mom went back to school and my dad had to support both her studies and my music studies.

should i include this somewhere in my app?
the problem is, for my main essay on common app, i wrote about the one-of-a-kind experience of living at the art school my dad studied at when we came here…but nowhere does the essay mention any of the hardships (including my mom’s depression because she basically had to give up everything after coming here). If i include the hardships part in my essay, I feel that it would lose its focus and tone (very optimistic, curious).

Do you think I should somehow embed the hardships into my essay…or…add that as part of the additional info (which i’ve already used to elaborate on activities and list college courses) section in the common app?

I would really appreciate any advice. Thanks so much!!
Good luck everyone!!