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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t every experience “lived”?

What else is there “dead experiences”?

I hate these [b]pretentious[/b] questions.[/quote]

You're approaching this as an educated adult--I think the wording is supposed to highlight to a teen that they should focus on what their experiences felt like and meant to them personally--the insights they drew from them, not just give an account of good things they did or bad things that happened.  Not every teen has a savvy parent or a coach to guide them through these nuances.  Maybe the college noticed that when they just say experiences, there are groups of kids who write a laundry list of what they see as their achievements--or some single discrete good or bad thing that happened that they got through--but when they say "lived experiences" they get more reflections on how kids learn and draw insight from broader patterns in their life.

As an aside, though I didn't think it at the time, I now think my kid benefitted by honestly working through essays about himself in the college application process.  He's mentioned points he's made since then when discussing experiences/reactions.[/quote]

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