Mentioning Immigration for Stanford ?

kgr
Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:00:30 +0000

Alright, here’s my question.

I immigrated to America 5 years ago, and went on to a good public school, took a bunch of AP classes, and got good scores on standardized tests.

Now, do I want to mention the fact that I did all of this in a foreign country with a language barrier/economic difficulties looming over my shoulders ?

I’m applying to Stanford and Im unsure of its view towards the whole “poor immigrant” thing.
So should I still write my essay on immigration (that’s what I did for UC’s) or just casually mention it somewhere (but they might think it’s not that important) ?

Kinda lost here.