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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 here<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. “Every time I wrote, and then discarded and then redrafted, I didn’t feel good. It … Continued<\/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\/ht\/news\/nyt-op-ed-college-application-sell-my-pain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ht_HT\" \/>\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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