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Common App Personal Statement · 62 words · · Admitted
Overcoming a setbackFamily and backgroundPersonal challenge
What historical moment or event do you wish you could have witnessed? (50 words). I’d like to witness my father’s boat escape in 1975, as he watches the Vietnam coastline disappear into the horizon, leaving behind his family’s 20 square foot grass hut for a future of freedom—bringing nothing but stories of Grandpa’s fishing market and billing cricket traps to catch dinner.
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