<p>The prompt: Everyone belongs to many different communities and/or groups defined by (among other things) shared geography, religion, ethnicity, income, cuisine, interest, race, ideology, or intellectual heritage. Choose one of the communities to which you belong, and describe that community and your place within it.</p>
<p>What would you guys write about?</p>
<p>I had a very similar essay, actually; I think it was for UVA. I believe I wrote about soccer, and how that community had guided me throughout my life. I guess they liked it, since I got in there…</p>
<p>Could I possibly see your essay? I have no idea what format to write in. I wrote my common app personal statement in a very creative way and no matter how much I tell myself to be more informative in this essay I find myself gradually moving towards creative.</p>
<p>I plan on writing about how I am an Indian who has spent his whole life in Hong Kong and talking about how different the two places are and how they cultivated me into who I am today.</p>
<p>“Born in India but brought up in Hong Kong, I got the best of both worlds. Every summer I packed my suitcase with my clothes, laptop, gadgets and other items that were so common in the modern cosmopolitan and flew off to meet my grandparents in Delhi.”</p>
<p>That is my starting…</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity, which uni is this essay for?</p>
<p>My first thought is “I’m a white teenager who lives in the suburbs. What would I possibly have to write about?”</p>
<p>But, you know, there’s stuff. for me, growing up in an unusually big family, growing up with Catholic, Protestant, and Unitarian religious communities, growing up with special needs siblings…it’s really just a fancy way to ask who you are.</p>
<p>can i please check out your essay for review as well. please . thanks
wei<em>ching</em><a href="mailto:yu@hotmial.com">yu@hotmial.com</a></p>
<p>@Drelnis University of Michigan</p>