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Diversity: Almost ready to submit.. please advise..

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 12:50 pm
by luuma
Thank you!

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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:30 pm
by mornincounselor
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Re: Diversity: Almost ready to submit.. please advise..

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 2:43 pm
by A. Nony Mouse
I like the images you draw. A few nitpicky points:

- how can you "watch" a "rain of laughter"?
- "demand in Spanish of our mother"
- "tecato--Dominican slang for an addict--always made me smile."
- "the perpetual cycle to which almost all of the community continues to fall victim"
- "continued to ascend throughout college" [omit "further"]
- "My desire for a better worldview [? better world? worldview seems really subjective, about perspective not about actual lived experience] has led me to pursue a legal career, for I wish to help young women, sitting in the same tenement buildings where I too I once sat, have a chance to see through a different scope" [this is sort of vague/unclear to me - do you really want them just to see things differently, or actually to have better opportunities? or do you want them to recognize that they can have opportunities, so that they can make those opportunities real? how does having a legal career actually help achieve this?]
- please please please don't use the word "utilize" - it's the most useless word in the world. In this context, I'd say "embrace and draw on"
- "I have transformed past adversities" [omit "such"]

Good luck with your applications!

Re: Diversity: Almost ready to submit.. please advise..

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 2:58 pm
by hernanmi
This seems a little long for a DS. Don't most schools allow applicants only one page or less?

Re: Diversity: Almost ready to submit.. please advise..

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:23 pm
by luuma
Thanks so much! Taking it down to look over these inputs for edits. Thanks a million guys! :)