Undergraduate / Identical Triplets - Common App Essay//topic of choice [5]

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INSTRUCTIONS:
Please write an essay of 250 - 500 words on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below, and attach it to your application before submission. Please indicate your topic by checking the appropriate box. This personal essay helps us become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will also demonstrate your ability to organize your thoughts and express yourself. NOTE: Your Common Application essay should be the same for all colleges. Do not customize it in any way for individual colleges. Colleges that want customized essay responses will ask for them on a supplement form.

Without further ado, here it is!! Enjoy!
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There are very few sets of identical triplet males in the world. And I am deeply honored to be one of them.

17 years ago, I came into this world, screaming and crying. My incessant wails could be heard throughout the government hospital in South India. My tiny body shivering in the cool room, drenched in blood. But I did not come alone. On either side of me, lay my slightly-older and my slightly-younger brother. Together, we were a sight indeed.

I can imagine the look on my father's face: raw emotion. Happiness mixed with pride, fear and anxiety. He told me later that he had almost fainted from all the stress. After all of the initial tests had said that we were all healthy, my father told me he was the happiest man on the face of the Earth.

My poor mother, on the other hand, had passed out a long time ago. She had had pains for a while, which resulted in a C-section a full month before the scheduled due date. She woke up from a deep sleep a few days later and just smiled. She held each one of us closely; our youthful little heads snuggled on her chest.

Fast-forward four-and-a-half years, we were moving to America and my entire life shifted. Here I am, a 3 foot-tall Indian child in a land where I don't speak the language, seeing things I've never seen before. Everything was different, save for one thing: the looks on people's faces when they saw us three.

The best thing -and worst-about being a triplet is that someone is always there. My brothers are only too willing to lend out harsh comments and snide remarks. Along with their commentary, their presence has followed me everywhere. Throughout my childhood, I distinctly remember doing everything together. To everyone else, it was cool to say that they had triplets over; to me, it was normal. My atypical moments of

being alone with my thoughts have truly been refreshing.

The good is coupled with the bad with all special things. If I need a friend, a workout partner, a critic, a tutor, a shoulder to lean on, I've been blessed with two of each. I honestly cannot remember a time in my life when I've been lonely or bored. Each moment is something new and that I cherish deeply.

Thought it may seem like my house was a hectic mess, it has been a wonderful childhood. Now, we have reached our biggest challenge: college. While I will be sad when we part ways, there is an eager and excited energy within me. The thoughts of being alone with knowledge all around me is quite electrifying. When my peers look at me in college, they look at me, not us.

I am completely used to getting stares everywhere I go. Not because I look different, but because I look similar. Without my two brothers, I would not be a triplet; I would not be me.