<p>Agree w/sg. Just be sure that the major impact of your essay is about you, how you think, view the world, act, etc. as a result of their example. And if you can, try to do this creatively, in the context of a specific situation, rather than a general straightforward essay about “how my parents overcame adversity and how that impacted me”. For instance, my D2 wrote about how she began to deal with the death of her father in the context of a trip to visit his relatives in Argentina and how a relatively mundane occurrence had special meaning to her.</p>