<p>As for your essay – your central one – I recommend the idea about writing about your life. You can include the explanation about your ECs as an optional extra essay/attachment – most schools accept one.</p>
<p>I agree that you shouldn’t write the story about immigration. First of all, your parents’ immigration may have had a large impact on your life – of course! – but it doesn’t really have to do with YOU personally. You were not there when they immigrated, and therefore it’s an indirect effect. That’s like me writing about my parents growing up in New York and having a relatively rough start in the working-class…as an admissions officer I’d read it and go “Nice, but why should we admit you?”</p>
<p>The story about your car accident is better, but you have to be able to write it in an entertaining, compelling way so it doesn’t come out sounding like “I was in a car accident, feel bad for me and let me in!” It needs to sound more like “This incident in my life may seem small, but it’s really big to me because ____.”</p>