Undergraduate /
Flexibility & Collaborativeness/ "We are not rich"; Tufts Supp; Curriculum/ Community [3]
[quote=koliva223]. Which aspects of Tufts' curriculum or undergraduate experience prompt your application? In short: ''Why Tufts?'' (Suggested length is 50-100 words .)
Tufts makes me feel as if even during growth, I am still apt to contribute to world discussions. The flexibility in its curriculum with the option of double majors and minors is very appealing.Tufts is very
clearly clear to me, a collaborative school. The university doesn't hide information from its students (or prospective students), but instead asks "What do you want to know?" That assures me that
I have a voice I will have a voice there. Its location in the city of Boston and the quality and resources within the academic facilities also tell me that I could be my best at Tufts. (98 words)
2.There is a Quaker saying: ''Let your life speak.'' Describe the environment in which you were raised-your family, home, neighborhood, or community-and how it influenced the person you are today. (200-250 words)
"Mommy, are we rich?" At five years old, I looked up at my mother standing by my family's shared perfume stand; the female and Le Male scents were intermixed. She stumbled into the living room to catch her breath from her laughter. My father inquired "żQuĂŠ pasĂł Kayla?" Hurt, I asked him the same question. His laughter soothed my naivete. "No. We're not." I had always lived a comfortable life with my parents. They never divulged their financial state until I was applying to boarding school with Prep 9, yet I was often importuned to appreciate the things I have and to understand that "money doesn't grow on trees."
"You didn't know you lived in the projects all this time?"
(What project? I don't quite follow here, could you be more specific?) Jonathan from the second floor confronted me in the 7th grade. I only knew my life's circumstances , which were very different from those on TV. I spoke to my parents in either Spanish or English, and made weekly phone calls to my Honduran relatives. Yet, my brother and I always watched "Good Times" and "What's Happening?"in the car, while my father praised Venezuelan President Chavez's policies, or my mother updated my father on my Taekwondo pum belt. I was raised in a comfortable, clean and orderly, one bedroom apartment on the third floor of 41-04 on Vernon Boulevard for most of my life. I have never looked at the "Welcome to Queensbridge South Houses" with chagrin. My upbringing and my involvement in Prep 9 shortly after making this connection are to thank. (253 words)
I think this essay answers the part of the question about your upbringing well, but it did not convey much information about how it influenced the person you are today. I suggest you to take off some details in the second paragraph and replace the space to talk about yourself. 