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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA admissions is aware of her bc they Dean J responded on social media when she posted on her website that students shouldn’t mention they are Jewish/write about their Jewish identity. [/quote]

Really? Why not? My kid did write about his Jewish identity - although he is going to a large flagship, and not one that is routinely discussed here - definitely not UVA.

My kid connected to his religion in high school, no thanks to his parents (we do not belong to a synagogue, etc); it was all him and that’s what he wrote about. I didn’t tell him not to - I had no idea it was taboo.[/quote]

Dean J basically said that this advice was ridiculous and not to listen to it. Sara H suggests admissions folks are anti semitic. [/quote]

What did Sara say this? She writes on her blog about how her mother is Jewish and immigrated to the US from a German displacement camp following the Holocaust. And that she'd use her mother's immigrant story to write a college essay

[quote]My mom was an immigrant. I know very little about her story. What I know is heart wrenching, just like the pictures coming from Afghanistan. My mom came to the U.S. as an infant after she and her family were released from a displacement camp in Germany, following the Holocaust. I know that she had nothing when she arrived here. And within a few years, she was living with her aunt and uncle in the back of a convenient store/gas station in a small farming village made up of immigrants like her.
 
If I could go back to my senior year of high school, I would have written my college essay on my visits to the gas station as a young child when my mom's aunt and uncle were still alive, and then as a young adult when there was nothing but an abandoned street corner where my mother grew up. 
 
I remember the grease of the gas station. I remember how I could yell from the gas pumps to the post office/deli across the street that my cousins' grandparents managed. I remember eating wonderfully nostalgic Kosher salami sandwiches on a big kaiser roll with a glass bottle of Coca-Cola in my great-aunt and great-uncle's shop. I remember one day when my cousin made me laugh so hard the salami and soda came out of my nose. I remember how, no matter what, my mom would drop everything the moment she arrived at the gas station to pump gas the way she had always done.
 
Her hands were greasy. Sweat beating down. Her immigrant story—still taking place decades later for her. I may not have said anything to my mom in those moments, but I admired her so much. The gas station continues to keep me humble decades later, especially when my ego gets ahead of me. [/quote]

https://www.saraharberson.com/blog/this-common-essay-topic-never-gets-old-for-admissions-officers[/quote]

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