<p>Is it acceptable to write that one held prejudices that were overturned through experience? </p>
<p>Or should one simply not state that she held any prejudices in the first place? Does stating that one held prejudices sour the tone of the essay/make the admissions officer think “once prejudiced; always prejudiced?”</p>
<p>Topic is OK. Just don’t be trite. Good luck</p>
<p>Remember that admissions officers don’t necessarily spend more than a minute or two reading the essay. It’s a fine topic idea, but you have to write it so that even a quick glance at the essay communicates the right impression.</p>
<p>Agree with T26 and Amarkov. Remember that the point is to paint a memorable picture of who you are, so don’t spend a lot of application ‘real estate’ on the prejudice - because that’s what they’ll remember. Keep the focus on how you were changed and what that means to you now and for your future goals and objectives.</p>
<p>But, you have to be careful. The risk for a hs senior, with limited life experiences, is that you really haven’t completely figured this out yet and that what you think “turned you around” is still incompletely formed, not tested beyond one or two examples- and that that comes across.
And, you can’t just explain- the idea is “show, not tell.”</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s true and important. Don’t do this if you aren’t a very good writer, because you need to somehow communicate that you changed at a level beyond saying “but then I changed”.</p>