<p>"Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story."</p>
<p>Do you think writing about my adoption would be a good response to this prompt? I was adopted as a baby to a family of my own race. I don't know my birth parents. I guess I don't have any drastically unusual elements to my adoption.</p>
<p>(P.S. I absolutely loathe these prompts.)</p>
<p>This question will come up for my daughter next summer; she’s adopted from China to a Caucasian family. In your age group, the number of international adoptions had begun its steep climb, so there will certainly be a number of other kids writing about adoption. In my adoption-parent discussion groups, I’ve heard that many (most?) of the kids write about their adoptions. So it won’t be unusual. But if it’s important to you in some way, and if you write about it in a way that’s real and heartfelt and true, it should end up engaging and interesting and ‘work’.</p>
<p>I loathe these prompts, too, and would hate them even more if I were the one answering them. Back in the day - I applied to college in 1975 - there was nothing like the required spilling of guts that there is today. My heart goes out to you all having to do this. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>