Should I write my essay on facing depression?

TopTier
Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:20:13 +0000

Okay, @kalefornia‌, let’s be certain I understand this. Your family evolved from farming to an annual income that’s in the top (probably) three percent of Americans; fundamentally, that’s why you were (are?) depressed.

The same application “reader” (at Cornell or at other most-selective National Research Universities) that evaluates your essays will also review MANY others from applicants whose problems are not caused by real affluence, but rather by abject poverty, and/or by acute and documented physical and mental problems, and/or by actual disfunction families, and/or by extreme lack of opportunities, and so forth. Now, please put yourself in the place of this admissions staffer, imagine how sympathetic you’d feel, and then estimate how your essay would be scored.

Find another topic and stop feeling sorry for yourself.