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Is It “Okay” to Talk About Race in Your College Application and Essays—And If So, How Should You Do It?

College Essay Guy

Then she transitions: “With our parents away, I felt a moral responsibility to become a leader and parental figure to my younger siblings.” In the first ⅓ of the essay (235 words—so not precisely ⅓, which is fine), she shows the challenges she faced and the effects those challenges had on her. Part 2: What she did.