<p>@NYRicanGirl, I’m sure there are a number of factors the interviewers were looking for in addition to the application itself. I am not considered “young” in terms of being in my 20s (I’m mid 30s), I come from a diverse background and I have had plenty of challenges which I discussed in length during the interview process. I am a minority, a grad student, and the first in my family to attend college. Questions can be subjective and how you present yourself to your interviewer may not be the way that you see yourself or perhaps it’s how confident you respond to leadership questions. Maybe it’s how your graduate studies relate to your undergraduate and how that can be used in the classroom. In any case, you are almost finished with your grad studies and sound like you have an excellent future ahead of you with or without TFA.</p>