<p>I was wondering it arrogance and sarcasm was acceptable in an essay.
I wrote an essay about how I changed in my transition when my family moved from India to America and how the differences in educational levels gave me a superiority complex and made me arrogant and stuff.</p>
<p>It's a self reflection essay, and I use lots of arrogance and sarcasm to illustrate my point of my superiority complex. It is supposed to be an ironic and funny self reflection where I talk about a big change in my life.</p>
<p>I can not post it here, but what I wrote above is pretty much a good summary.</p>
<p>Is that acceptable? Or good? And If it is neither (or both), does anyone have any tips that can help me make it better?</p>
<p>oh, I don’t know. You are highlighting bad traits in your essay? And then what, saying you aren’t like that now? Do you have good examples of your ‘new attitude’? I’m not sure the reader will be able to get over the initial negative reaction. And why would it be sarcastic? I don’t think sarcasm has any place in a college essay. But self reflection does have a place, otoh. It is really hard just to guess if you can pull this off or not. You would have to be really convincing.</p>
<p>Hmm too much talk about arrogance in one place. You should be focusing on the lessons learned instead. The smallest hint of a bad trait can be easily misconstrued in an essay, and your improvement could quickly fade into the background. I’d say no.</p>
<p>Also, something that’s not clear from your post: By “big change in my life,” are you talking the moving process itself or about an actual change in your character? Are you reflecting only on moving to India or on becoming a different person? Cause if there’s no reference to a change in traits (aka if, according to the essay, you remained arrogant), then this would only hurt your app.</p>