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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what race? [/quote]

I'm mixed white/black but I look more white than black and I don't have much I could talk about in one of those "lived experience" essays[/quote]

You could write about your situation and the perspective it's given you. Ron Lieber, a financial columnist for the NYT, publishes a few college essays about money each year, linked here for inspiration:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/your-money/college-essays-money.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.iaFo.LnA6e1BIHd3L&smid=url-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/your-money/college-essays-on-money.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.AXVa.wD4PetxDuetS&smid=url-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/your-money/pictures-of-themselves-the-2020-college-essays-on-money.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.mLV0.Kd9THXb1nGh2&smid=url-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/your-money/in-college-essays-about-money-echoes-of-parents-attitudes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.W_UJ.RBL_T5uuMBSB&smid=url-share

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