using experiences pre-college for secondaries?

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Is this frowned upon? Most of my adversity and diversity experiences were from pre-college.

 

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Is this frowned upon? Most of my adversity and diversity experiences were from pre-college.

For adversity and diversity? No, those can certainly be pre-college! You may have been diagnosed with CF at 4 years old, you may have fled South Sudan at 9 years old, you may have lost both your mother and grandmother to breast cancer and opted to receive an elective mastectomy at 17.....Those are the extreme ones I can make up off the top of my head, but you get the picture.

 

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For adversity and diversity? No, those can certainly be pre-college! You may have been diagnosed with CF at 4 years old, you may have fled South Sudan at 9 years old, you may have lost both your mother and grandmother to breast cancer and opted to receive an elective mastectomy at 17.....Those are the extreme ones I can make up off the top of my head, but you get the picture.

What about for other topics such as proudest accomplishment and others?

 

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What about for other topics such as proudest accomplishment and others?

I could imagine. Your proudest accomplishment could be graduating highschool as a single mother to a child you had when you were 16, you could have been an olympic medalist gymnast at 14, you could have presented a Ted Talk on your innovative and cheap wind turbine you invented out of scrap laying around your village at the age of 11.

Again, those are the extremes I can make up off the top of my head.

 

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I used a high school experience for one of my secondary essays and I graduated high school 10 years ago. I tried to come up with something more recent, but was the only experience that answered the question, so I went for it. Fortunately it’s only for one school.