<p>Personal statement prompt #2: Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud, and how does it relate to the person you are?</p>
<p>My current essay is about how a conversation with someone changed my worldview. It's definitely an experience that's important to me and defines who I am. However, it's not exactly something that makes me proud in the sense that it boosts my ego or something along those lines. The only way it makes me proud is perhaps to say I'm proud of finally having changed the way I see things and learning to assume less about others. </p>
<p>Does this work? Or is it too much of a stretch? It wouldn't really work with my essay to emphasize how proud I am or what an accomplishment this was, because it would contradict the point of the essay (which is about humbleness and not assuming.) </p>
<p>Advice much appreciated! </p>
<p>The answer is: it depends on how well it is written. Sure, if you have overcome a perspective that you held largely because of your environment or upbringing, yet you now have a wider view due to this experience, that can certainly be a good essay. But, it depends on the conversation, and how you explain it. </p>
<p>Humility,not humbleness. 
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<p>Haha – my mistake. </p>
<p>I’ve already had my AP English teacher read it and she liked it. She hasn’t gotten back to me on this question in particular, though. A little more detail: Yeah, it was a lifelong perspective that was difficult to overcome. But the essay is more about how my interactions with several people (and one in particular) changed that perspective. It’s not really a “look at me and how great I am for forcing myself to think differently” sort of thing. </p>
<p>The change in perspective gave me more confidence and helped me grow as a person, so I could say I’m proud of that. I’m just afraid it doesn’t answer the prompt directly enough. </p>