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Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 20:14:39 2020 No.12146574 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12146695 >>12146820 >>12147007 >>12147209

Why do you need a hardship to study STEM (or anything really) at a prestigious school at both undergraduate and graduate applications?

What was your hardship /sci/?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 20:16:00 No.12146579 Report

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For reference my parents make over 250,000$ combined and I'm a white male. I don't have a struggle that a third worlder would have.

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Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 20:43:52 No.12146674 Report

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>>12146579
The idea is that if you don't have a paper and an amazing track record already then you must have had a hardship. Describing how you got over that hardship and internalized it to become a better person looks good.

Having parents making 250k and no problems in your life means you should already have some accomplishments under your belt as you didn't have hardships to prevent that.

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Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 20:52:43 No.12146695 Report

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>>12146574
Sounds wishy washy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 21:33:48 No.12146820 Report

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>>12146574
Are you talking about the essay you write to get into school? Just make something up. No one reads it, anyways.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 22:44:43 No.12146985 Report

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You could go meta and write about the hardship of writing a hardship essay.

Or you could write about the difficulties of making friends and connecting with people. That's something anyone can relate to and is a perfect learning experience for you to learn how to shit out meaningless words in order to get what you want.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 22:46:00 No.12146989 Report

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Write about the impact of the coronavirus ezpz and how you saved you neighborhood from the local 5g mind control tower

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 22:47:47 No.12146993 Report

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you don't
I had the same background as you and now I'm at the top phd program in the world for my field.
grad admissions don't really give a fuck about that part of the app (at least for physics), and at the very most will use it to decide between two equally-qualified candidates.

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Anonymous Mon 21 Sep 2020 22:54:46 No.12147007 Report

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>>12146574
Just write down
>I never had a tomboy girlfriend to make fun of me for studying and being a nerd while simulataneously encouraging me to follow my dreams and aspirations.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 22 Sep 2020 00:26:00 No.12147209 Report

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>>12146574
Top STEM PhD here. No hardships, just passion and accomplishments.

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