Leveraging My Experience

IntWiz
Tue, 27 Dec 2016 09:46:59 +0000

Greetings All:
I’m a current junior. Between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, my family went abroad to Turkey to do humanitarian work near the border of Syria for a year (We are originally Syrians). I did ninth grade again in a school for displaced Syrians (I wasn’t held back or anything because grades, I just skipped first grade and my mother thought it would be an appropriate time for me to go back with my age group as well as get this experience) and made really important friendships there as well as did volunteering work (besides normal volunteering work, I did stuff like draft papers that went to the UN or translate papers for the humanitarian organization my family worked with). For me, this was a very valuable formative experience. I was wondering how important this would be to my college app if useful at all. To me it seems like something colleges would think is somewhat unique, because I spent a year in a foreign country and did humanitarian work as well as immersed myself with the displaced Syrians. However, I don’t know much about what this experience would do for me on my college app and just wanted everyone’s feedback. Thanks!