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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC wrote about her service trip to a poor rural community in the Caribbean. I think the key is that she focused on how she was forced to take a risk and step out of her comfort zone. It was good enough to get into several Ivies. [/quote] Are you my DH? My DC wrote this essay about a rural Caribbean community and got into several Ivies. DC wrote about how they had planned to do one thing, but when they arrived they found they were expected to do a totally different thing and the community had no use for the first thing. They were totally unequipped to do this other thing, with no way of equipping themselves in this remote location, and DC wrote about how they handled it and managed to be useful after all. The difference here, I think, is that neither of our DCs wrote about how "we're all the same under the skin" or "I appreciate my immense privilege so much more after this trip." They wrote about challenges and how they faced them. [/quote]
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