<h1>63 - epiphany</h1>
<p>The college essay format does not give students the chance to enumerate every adversary situation that they face. Students are taught to show one facet of life and not to tell every detail (yes, students have to write an interesting essay). For example, a new immigrant may choose to show in the essay how he/she struggled with English and how he/she improved it and choose not to show that his/her family and himself/herself were struggling to make a living. An abused student may just ignore the fact that he/she was brutally molested, beaten, detracted from academic activities by the abusive parent and just focus on how he/she he appreciated the opportunity to work in a community of poor people and learn positive experience in the essay.</p>
<p>I think this type of prompt for every UC applicant is used more to access character, personal quality, and motivation than to evaluate personal situation of students. If UCLA wants to collect life challenges and personal situation of a student then a different question should be asked (something like: Please list the adversary situations that affect your academic activities during your high school years - a plain question that a guidance counselor can answer on behalf of the student if the counselor has such an opportunity, and in fact never has).</p>