<p>Hey, I know that colleges give you points based on your own personal diffuculties, but I was wondering if I would get any points for one of my siblings dying before I was born.</p>
<p>The way you’re posting it on here, I would say your attitude towards your deceased sibling will actually hurt you.</p>
<p>Seriously!!! what kind of messed up person ARE you???</p>
<p>So you want to “get points” because one of your siblings died? </p>
<p>Died before you were even born?</p>
<p>No, colleges consider how personal difficulties might have affected your life when judging your application. They don’t just give you +10 points for being robbed at gunpoint.</p>
<p>■■■■■. Roll ■■■■■ roll</p>
<p>Yes. +50 points for your school of choice.</p>
<p>But being a point hog deducts 9999 points.</p>
<p>This question is kind of disturbing…you’re trying to use a sibling’s death to your own advantage and you don’t seem to care at all</p>
<p>Hahaha wow this is messed up</p>
<p>If it was before the OP was born, then there is no way he would have suffered any ‘emotional scarring’. So I don’t think colleges will even consider that</p>
<p>How many “points” do you get if you had cancer? If your father was an alcoholic?</p>
<p>If you can describe how it affected your family, and how you’ve always felt the absence in your household, or it somehow affected YOU or it affected your family through the present and therefore affects YOU, you might have a good college essay topic. You’d have to be really thoughtful, though. Problems with this: its effect on you seems pretty indirect. It will not get you any more points than a well-written essay about something else. College essays need to be about YOU, not “oh this is my family.” Morbid essays can be really really bad. One of my friends applied early decision to a mid-ranked LAC from one of the top 10 high schools in the country with 2250-ish SATs, and got flat out rejected. Consensus (in which she does not share because she is delusional…?) is that it’s because all of her essays were about deaths in her family, which were not about Why She Is Cool or Why You Wouldn’t Want To Run Away From Hanging Out With This GIrl.</p>
<p>From the way you’re talking about it, it wasn’t a challenge faced and conquered, by the way. That implies that you had to OVERCOME adversity, not just have bad events happen somewhere near you.</p>
<p>I’m not going to lie, this sort of disgusts me. like way to exploit your dead sibling.</p>
<p>no…</p>
<p>Indeed, this thread is troubling.</p>
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<p>Sorry cancer is commonplace, only 5 points.</p>
<p>Now an alcoholic, MAJOR points there.</p>
<p>Did he beat you? That’s bonus points.</p>
<p>troublin trollin got no work</p>
<p>trollllllllllll</p>
<p>Hmm…</p>
<p>“Alt” - short for alternate account
QQ - common internet emoticon for crying
QQmore - common internet phrase to make fun of someone for crying/complaining…</p>
<p>I hope no one takes this topic seriously.</p>
<p>Sure, it’s a major hook. But I’d say that if your application was compared next to someone whose parent had died, they’d have the edge over you. Alas, college admissions is so arbitrary. All you can know is that you put your best foot forward. Best of luck! Oh, and my condolences…</p>