Would someone mind looking over the essay portion of the "disadvantaged status" designation for my AMCAS application? Is this strong enough? Also, I am at 1517 characters; it needs to be trimmed to 1325 so if you have any ideas of what to cut out, I would appreciate that as well. I welcome any feedback, thank you in advance!
When we initially moved to _______ ______, my father started a job as a landscaper for a wealthy man who owned land there. For a few years, my parents were able to pay their bills with no problems, albeit with a little help from food stamps. However, when my father’s employer became ill, at the age of 10 I found a letter on the door telling us that we had 7 days to vacate. The landscaping job was the last consistent work that my father had. Since then, my parents have been participating in 6-8 week “outages” at a power plant, where they work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, and then live off of the unemployment for the rest of the year. Between outages, my father does small construction jobs: painting, refurbishing rooms and anything else he can get; my mother feverishly tries to keep up with the bills, constantly requesting extensions and prioritizing electricity over water. The only food that we had in the house came from food stamps. However, my parents have never stopped working, never gave up hope. My father would come home with head lacerations, covered in soot and sweat, exhausted and would shower and wake up at 5 am for work the next day. My mother has applied for hundreds of steady jobs, trying to get us out of this poverty. They have sacrificed for me for 21 years. From them, I have learned the meaning of hard work, which has propelled me through my college years and has allowed me to stay dedicated to my aim of providing medical care to people in rural areas like _______ ______.
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