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Common App Personal Statement · 651 words · · Admitted
Personal growthLeadershipCommunity impactFamily and background
Turn off a narrow road on to a gravel driveway. Follow the drive until you reach an old tobacco barn, about a mile from the last traces of civilization. Welcome to my grandmother’s certified organic farm and the site of my successful, sustainable poultry business FOWL. This is the road I drive down everyday, and the route a group of Iraqi teenagers took when they came to visit the farm and talk to a peer about the entrepreneurial process. This past summer, a group of Iraqi teenagers were chosen to participate in a selective program put on jointly by the U.S. State Department and the World…
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