<p>In a couple of weeks I’ll be a rising senior. I already have a list of colleges mostly ironed out and I know what my top choices are. However, I have two issues. </p>
<p>First, I’m lesbian, and not all colleges are going to see that as a good thing.</p>
<p>Second, I was depressed for the larger part of my first two years of high school. I was outed to my family by my girlfriend’s parents, went through a very messy breakup several months later, and remained in a rut for some time after that. Because of this, I have only one club that I will have been in for all four years. All the rest of my extracurriculars were started at the beginning of this school year. My academics are very good, but I am a little deficient in terms of ECs. Unfortunately for me- or maybe fortunately, because after trying to look into it online, I really have no idea about any of this anymore- I never sought help and was never clinically diagnosed.</p>
<p>I was hoping that I could make up a little for the lacking in ECs by explaining what happened, and possibly use part of one of these for an essay, but I know some colleges- though maybe not the ones I’m thinking of applying to- may reject me for the first one, and others probably will reject me for the second.</p>
<p>So which of these do I need to hide when applying where?</p>
<p>(Colleges I’m looking at are: Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Tufts, Berkeley, UVA, UNC, UMD, Penn State, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Reed, Swarthmore, University of Washington, Duke, University of Chicago, WUStL, Northwestern.)</p>