PSA: Don't write your essay about building huts in Africa!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your niece should reconsider

College counselor is firmly “no medical problems” (and also said “no parents with cancer” which doesn’t apply to her but that also seems crazy to me.)

If medical problems are similar to disability, we've been told not to write about disability for the main essay, but to consider disclosing in the "anything else" section to explain upward trajectory in grades.