VGThuy
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Gosh, no wonder there's trauma dumping in college essays with all this pressure to be a worker bee or have "incredible" hardships just to get into college. Of course, getting rid of the essay, personalized application process and replacing it with just hard numbers (despite the incredible lack of uniformity of grades and what we know about standardized test scores) isn't the answer either.For me, no disdain for wanting challenge. The disdain comes from the ubiquitous mentions of wanting to be "pushed." In the same vein, I see many smart, high-achieving students from well-off families who used Covid as the excuse for why they sat on their asses and did virtually nothing other than schoolwork during their freshman and sophomore years. Meanwhile, other kids got jobs, provided childcare for their families, worked on a self-initiated project, learned to play guitar, or found opportunities to volunteer despite Covid restrictions.