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@Churchill
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 鈥� 3 years ago 鈥� Admissions Advice
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Thoughts on the affirmative ruling.
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This affirmative ruling is just discouraging. I spent 3 months to gather and write up my personal statement - which had three excellent rating from super reviewers on the peer review section. It was about my cultural background. Obviously, that is the most personal and challenging experience I鈥檝e faced. Am just 17 years old. Now I鈥檝e got to write a new personal statement with admissions portal opening in days. I do not have the luxury of three months now. Am tensioned. Admission officers would feel different now about essay regarding personal statements concerning cultural background of any sorts. It may now be more harm that鈥檚 good to keep or submit that kind of personal statement. Now, am tensioned with coming up with a new personal statement that doesn鈥檛 involve cultural background. It just isn鈥檛 fair. Authenticity reduces when pushed to the edge to write something that wasn鈥檛 even your initial. Anyways, it is what it is.

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 鈥� 3 years ago

Hello! Just a heads up, you do not HAVE to change your personal statement essay on your cultural background because of the affirmative action ruling. If your essay is a strong essay, and focuses on how your heritage and culture has affected you, then you can most definitely still use it. Because of the ruling, an essay or admissions portfolio that says 鈥淚鈥檓 a member of x race/ethnicity/culture鈥� or something similar won鈥檛 necessarily hurt your admissions chances, but it won鈥檛 help your chances either. From what I understand, taken at its face value, the ruling simply means race isn鈥檛 a factor that influences your chancing anymore. As long as your essay provides context for it, for example, it touches on how being a member of a specific race, ethnicity, or culture affects your life and education, or incidents of bullying/discrimination based off of your race/ethnicity/culture caused you to take a specific action, then for sure, use that personal statement.

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