Undergraduate / "From a remote Canadian town to Columbia University" - Supp - Why Columbia? [6]

I'm not going to lie - that was brilliant. Probably better than 90% of the drivel that admissions officers receive, anyway. There's nothing especially creative or outlandish about your response, but it elicits a really positive image of you as a student. Somehow, it just "works".

There are some slight grammatical errors, but they don't detract from your message:

Growing up in a remote Canadian town, the radius of my influence was, in the most generous times, limited.
^ Subject confusion.