Need some help on my Diversity Statment
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:03 pm
Hey guys, I'm not applying until next cycle so no rush, but I'm at a loss of how to combine all my life experiences into a coherent diversity statement, and some help getting started would be much appreciated! Here are some things I'd like to include, although I'm sure I'm leaving some stuff out:
1) Mexican-American URM, my father has pretty extensive Mayan ancestry.
2) First generation college student. Both my parents emigrated to the US in the 1980s, and my father only has a 6th grade education.
3) Parents divorced when I was around 8 years old, then we moved to Memphis, TN with my mom and stepfather.
4) Growing up in the south was extremely hard as a latino, even middle school kids could be brutally racist. Hardly a day went by without someone calling me a "dirty mexican", and I even took up boxing because I wanted to fight some of these kids (never did).
5) English is my 3rd language (after spanish and portuguese), yet I managed to excel in highschool and got a scholarship to an Ivy league.
6) Stepfather lost his job my freshman year, and I had to work throughout college.
Thoughts?
Edit: Maybe some of these should fall under my personal statement? I haven't started that yet either, so help on the PS would be great as well!
Some numbers as well: I have a 2.8 GPA (providing addendum) and a 172 LSAT (retaking in June).
1) Mexican-American URM, my father has pretty extensive Mayan ancestry.
2) First generation college student. Both my parents emigrated to the US in the 1980s, and my father only has a 6th grade education.
3) Parents divorced when I was around 8 years old, then we moved to Memphis, TN with my mom and stepfather.
4) Growing up in the south was extremely hard as a latino, even middle school kids could be brutally racist. Hardly a day went by without someone calling me a "dirty mexican", and I even took up boxing because I wanted to fight some of these kids (never did).
5) English is my 3rd language (after spanish and portuguese), yet I managed to excel in highschool and got a scholarship to an Ivy league.
6) Stepfather lost his job my freshman year, and I had to work throughout college.
Thoughts?
Edit: Maybe some of these should fall under my personal statement? I haven't started that yet either, so help on the PS would be great as well!
Some numbers as well: I have a 2.8 GPA (providing addendum) and a 172 LSAT (retaking in June).