<p>"Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you."</p>
<p>For those of you that chose this, what did you write about?</p>
<p>yes I wrote about blue cowboy boots.</p>
<p>Can you go in depth a little more? what about blue cowboy boots. I thought the prompt is referring to how YOU yourself would bring diversity to the school.</p>
<p>I wrote about how though I grew up in a white, suburban home, I was familiar with struggles the were not my own from working beside men and women who had overcome poverty and addiction during my year working at a homeless shelter... but that was for a supp, not the common app essay</p>
<p>Thanks, tdanielle. </p>
<p>Would it be weird if I wrote about how I'm dieing for a change in the atmosphere around me? My school is 80% asian and I'm white...I'm disappointed in the lack of diversity around me and how this has prevented my horizons to expand.</p>
<p>please...anyone?</p>
<p>bump again</p>
<p>i did
i took advice from some of my friends that worked for admissions and wrote about how I was the only mexican in this program during the summer and how we worked off of each other and all of that good stuff.
Yes I know that some people will disagree but I have to use what I have and that is the my mexican card.</p>
<p>I wrote under that topic - </p>
<p>Funny, because my essay was the total inverse of what yours sounds like it might be.. I wrote about being both asian and caucasian in a school where diversity was scarce and how it effected me in class situations, past family discrimination, and how I looked up to past Asian civil rights leaders during WWII and joined the JACL. I don't like to think that I "pulled the race card" because the essay really could have fit under any of the topics.. plus, nowadays, being asian doesn't really help much apparently, not that I support affirmative action or anything..</p>
<p>But the essay turned out okay I think, and schools like it when diversity is mentioned because that, along with national demographics, is huge in the selection process. I attribute my essay to my early Stanford admittance.</p>
<p>I don't think an essay about being a white minority in a majority asian school and how you wish it was otherwise is going to take you very far. A better essay would be about what you learned/got out of being a minority-even if it's just a school. A still better essay might reflect on the fact that 'Asian' includes so many cultures, religions and social classes that it's hardly monolithic (but that would mean that you actually learned something about the Asians at your school).</p>
<p>To Cliffhanger:</p>
<p>“I’m disappointed in the lack of diversity around me and how this has prevented my horizons to expand…”</p>
<p>You said 80% of the students in your school are Asians. There are dozen types of Asians.
And because you are white, you are already exposed to so much of diversity.</p>
<p>Don’t contradict yourself.</p>