Common App Personal Statement · 484 words · · Admitted
Personal growthOvercoming a setbackFamily and background
I look upon the scene of a little girl, young and naïve, standing with her brother and sisters in a room that she doesn’t know she’ll never set foot in again. She also doesn’t know that this is the last goodbye she’ll ever bid her siblings again. Any bystander would gaze upon these children and take pity on them. However, this bystander wouldn’t know what I know. He or she wouldn’t know that this is merely God’s will being done. I smile because I’m in on a little secret. I know what is to become of this little girl. Eleven years later, after having been adopted at the age of six and having…
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