{"id":7616,"date":"2021-05-09T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T18:09:06","slug":"nyt-op-ed-college-application-sell-my-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/es\/news\/nyt-op-ed-college-application-sell-my-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Art\u00edculo de opini\u00f3n en el NYT: Cuando me matricul\u00e9 en la universidad, no quer\u00eda \"vender mi dolor\"."},"content":{"rendered":"

The personal statement is an opportunity for high school students to “sell” themselves to the college admissions officer for admission. In most cases, there’s a template to follow, one which Elijah, an Uncommon Charter High School senior, recognized as troublesome.<\/p>\n

“Every time I wrote, and then discarded and then redrafted, I didn’t feel good. It felt as if I were trying to gain pity. I knew what I went through was tough and to overcome those challenges was remarkable, but was that all I had to offer?”<\/p>\n

Read Elijah’s reflections on the college admissions process in the New York Times aqu\u00ed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La declaraci\u00f3n personal es una oportunidad para que los estudiantes de secundaria se \"vendan\" al responsable de admisiones de la universidad para ser admitidos. En la mayor\u00eda de los casos, hay una plantilla a seguir, una que Elijah, estudiante de \u00faltimo curso de Uncommon Charter High School, reconoci\u00f3 como problem\u00e1tica. \"Cada vez que escrib\u00eda, y luego desechaba y volv\u00eda a redactar, no me sent\u00eda bien. No ... Contin\u00faa en<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"class_list":["post-7616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-city","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNYT Op-Ed: When I Applied to College, I Didn't Want to 'Sell My Pain' - Uncommon Schools<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""I encourage those who fell like their stories were written tragedy to rethink that, I did," writes Elijah Megginson.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/es\/news\/nyt-op-ed-college-application-sell-my-pain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NYT Op-Ed: When I Applied to College, I Didn't Want to 'Sell My Pain' - 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