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I wish my only challenge was overcoming my accent (as thick as it could be when you come from "Motherrrrr Rrrrrussia"). I am not an adcom, but it seems too weak to be a challenge topic. Dealing with totally new culture and different type of people, however, is a pretty decent topic.
 
In the framework of reconciling the two cultures during your adolescence, I like the topic. If you specifically want to use your accent as the main angle, I would just make sure you frame it as overcoming your insecurities about your accent during your childhood, not simply overcoming your accent itself (as there is nothing wrong with having one).
 
Back to drawing board... Sorry, but overcoming a slight accent is not a challenge. Everybody has an accent. Why treat a foreign accent as something that needs to be overcome?
Just to add: when I tried to speak more "American", people understood many way too worse, but when I was speaking just as it is, people got me very clear, so accent is not really something bad as long as it is understandable.
 
Got it thanks! Hmm when you say “totally new culture and different type of people,” do you think I could work with that considering that I came here when I was really young? What if I focused on being the first “gen” here in America?
Depends on how young you were, I assume that if come here as an infant then you will not have any accent, but if you were 12-13 then this is a pretty good age to consider yourself as a product of 2 cultures.
 
Why not just talk about your difficulties reconciling your two cultures? I think that would make a fine adversity essay without bringing in the accent aspect.
 
Surprisingly I was an infant, yet I somehow still did some vestiges of an accent. I think it may have been because English isn’t a primary language and also that I’m so used to speaking a different language with my family/community that no one else bothered to tell me about the slight accent lol.
I understand that many people on this forum had pretty charm life, but in your situation it might worth to think about something else as a challenge (death of close relative, being subjected to racism/ethnic discrimination by someone other than your high schools bullies (as an example, my middle school teacher was antisemitic and blamed Jews for the collapse of the USSR, guess who was the only jew in the school)? I understand that some people had very traumatic experience with something really minor and insignificant for others, but if you were infant and just have immigrant parents, then, may be, you should try to focus on something else just to avoid being "shady". I am not an adcom, so take it with a grain of salt.
 
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