Common App Personal Statement · 307 words · · Outcome not disclosed
Personal growthLeadershipCommunity impact
PROMPT: Labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta recommended a life of purpose. “We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things,” she said. “That is what we are put on the earth for.” In what ways do you hope to make—or are you making—an impact? (200-250 words). They were everywhere—on the streets begging, in the market stealing, at the prison fighting. Even more disturbing however, was the fact that they were just children. In my neighborhood, people give birth to kids in numbers they can barely cater for. These kids in their quest for…
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