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I am really struggling with evaluating various topics for my diversity essay and need some help finding a direction. Here are my various experiences that I think are important, please don't quote these as I intend on removing them.
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Thanks so much!
 
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I did your 2 and 3 and combined them. I come from the same background as you (multiracial, immigrant parents) so I hope I'm allowed to talk about that lol.
 
Thanks for the responses! As a last question, how you deal with character/word counts. For instance, Mount Sinai & Penn have ridiculously short diversity secondaries, at 100 words and 1000 characters respectively. How can you reasonably explain anything with such brevity. I feel like I would have to completely "tell" my experiences in these cases without "showing." Is that alright?
 
TheseKids said:
Thanks for the responses! As a last question, how you deal with character/word counts. For instance, Mount Sinai & Penn have ridiculously short diversity secondaries, at 100 words and 1000 characters respectively. How can you reasonably explain anything with such brevity. I feel like I would have to completely "tell" my experiences in these cases without "showing." Is that alright?
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I'm pretty sure it's ok to "tell" in secondaries. This isn't like the PS where you're explaining motivations for going into medicine. The secondary questions are pretty specific so I honestly think it's better just to be direct, clear, and concise. That's how I'm approaching it at least. I'm uber high stat so I'm playing secondary essays safe since I don't want to try to be creative and risk having them misinterpret it in anyway.
 
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