<p>Well, please read through the story and tell me how best if at all I should put this on my application. </p>
<p>Well, me and my parents are first generation immigrants. My Dad and mom left me in China when I was 1 and 2(Respectively). I came when I was four. During the first couple of years, it was rough, my dad was going through grad school at Carnegie Mellon, waitering at night to get the family by. We basically lived in the slums of pittsburg. Well, after a few years, we lived the american dream and I now reside in an middle class neighborhood. </p>
<p>How should I put write this in the app? Should I put it in at all? I guess it affected me somewhat as it gave me determination to succede. I dont want to write my essay about it because it was more or less my parent's accomplishments, not mine. By the time I was in 5th grade, I was already residing in where I am now, dispite at that time there were some gaps between the conditions of my peers and me. I also work to support my expenses, gas, clothing, some food. </p>
<p>How will this be viewed by adcoms, expecially if our current income is far from what it was 13 years ago and it only affected me when I was in elementry school?</p>