<p>The Prompt:
Tell us about your current residential community, which may include your neighborhood, hometown, friends, family, and mentors. How has this community shaped who you are?</p>
<p>I’m having trouble understanding exactly what they’re saying as they mention is could be my hometown. Are they saying talk about where I’m living right now or can I talk about where I lived before?</p>
<p>I talked about a mentor from where I lived abroad</p>
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<p>But they mention hometowns and I haven’t lived where I do for long.</p>
<p>SPS is very mindful of being a community, and I suspect they want students who value that and want to be active and contributing members of it. I believe they’re trying to get a sense of the importance of community to you with this question. If you explain why you’re talking about your former hometown and not your current one I expect it would be ok. However, I’m not an AO so please don’t take my word as your final answer, this is just my opinion as an SPS parent.</p>
<p>Even if you write about your hometown, where you no longer reside, did it have a lasting impact on you? If your idea of community has been formed from your experience in hometown, and if it has continuously affected you, it’s still living in you, and I don’t see why not.</p>