I have been stumped on what my last essay should be. I was stuck on either prompt 1 and 7. I have leadership experience, i have a lot community service. But I know i don’t have very good material for a great essay. But after watching this video, i feel more confident on taking on this prompt. It always scared me, and i’ve heard from so many that I should stay away from this prompt. I’ve done countless research as well, but none have fostered me as much as this video. Truly, thank you
Could I perhaps talk about how I grew up Hispanic, but I'm not very good at speaking Spanish, therefore I can't communicate with my own family members? Like a language barrier between me and my own family.
That's an interesting challenge/conflict that can help you establish a personal growth. To tie that into a prompt like this, you'd want to perhaps consider reverse engineering what UC's stand for--ie, what their mission statement is. The prompt is asking for what makes you a strong candidate to UC's, which can take multiple interpretations: how you're academically strong in maybe the undergraduate research you excel in; how you're personally motivated to pursue goals that align with UC values; how you provide unique insight or personal skills that could be conducive to such... You'll need to find a way to make your personal growth, insight, skillset, and/or convictions/aspirations something the UC's would want at their campuses. What is that going to be? Based on your answer to this line of brainstorming, you'll have something more textured to present me, so that I maybe give you more assurances of your topic choice then.
Food is a very common subject for diversity, culture, uniqueness. It's also used quite a bit for creativity (fusion foods cooking). So the subject of food as an immigrant is relatively common, meaning it'll become more important to explain your introspection/realizations about food as an immigrant. What would you say you contribute through food as an immigrant? Based on your points to that question, you may have a very generic answer or a unique one that stands out of all the other immigrant/food type essays I've read over the years.
I feel like your format of learning something and overcoming a challenge fits better into #4 or #5, how can i change that so its something that they would feel is redundant to add in?
Watching this as a Venezuelan is insane
I have been stumped on what my last essay should be. I was stuck on either prompt 1 and 7. I have leadership experience, i have a lot community service. But I know i don’t have very good material for a great essay. But after watching this video, i feel more confident on taking on this prompt. It always scared me, and i’ve heard from so many that I should stay away from this prompt. I’ve done countless research as well, but none have fostered me as much as this video. Truly, thank you
Could I perhaps talk about how I grew up Hispanic, but I'm not very good at speaking Spanish, therefore I can't communicate with my own family members? Like a language barrier between me and my own family.
That's an interesting challenge/conflict that can help you establish a personal growth. To tie that into a prompt like this, you'd want to perhaps consider reverse engineering what UC's stand for--ie, what their mission statement is. The prompt is asking for what makes you a strong candidate to UC's, which can take multiple interpretations: how you're academically strong in maybe the undergraduate research you excel in; how you're personally motivated to pursue goals that align with UC values; how you provide unique insight or personal skills that could be conducive to such... You'll need to find a way to make your personal growth, insight, skillset, and/or convictions/aspirations something the UC's would want at their campuses. What is that going to be? Based on your answer to this line of brainstorming, you'll have something more textured to present me, so that I maybe give you more assurances of your topic choice then.
Could I talk about how I can contribute to UC's diversity through food as an immigrant?
Food is a very common subject for diversity, culture, uniqueness. It's also used quite a bit for creativity (fusion foods cooking).
So the subject of food as an immigrant is relatively common, meaning it'll become more important to explain your introspection/realizations about food as an immigrant. What would you say you contribute through food as an immigrant? Based on your points to that question, you may have a very generic answer or a unique one that stands out of all the other immigrant/food type essays I've read over the years.
I feel like your format of learning something and overcoming a challenge fits better into #4 or #5, how can i change that so its something that they would feel is redundant to add in?