Special Circumstances HELP Common App

happy1
Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:49:48 +0000

Unless you are close enough to RBG to ask for and get a very personalized, and substantive LOR, then don’t mention it. In fact I think it would be a negative to just throw it out in an application – it would seem like you are trying to get in off the coattails of some distant relative. The accomplishments of a first cousin twice removed however impressive are not important to your application, only your accomplishments are.

And I would talk about the trip, not the parasite unless it was life altering in some way.