
Arav froze before college applications, unsure who he was or what to write. In a College Ready activity, Deborah had Arav and his parents each list 20-30 traits about him. Comparing the lists showed him what others saw in him and gave him real essay ideas.
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I think one of the things that I was most scared about that summer before I had to apply to all these colleges was like, I have no idea who I am. I don't know what I have to write about. I don't like, my mind was like a blank slate. I had no idea like, oh my God, how are people able to come up with such amazing essays? And so I think the, the, the one thing that I really loved was one of the first few activities that I did with College Ready is that Deborah had us, uh, me and my parents list out like 20 to 30 things just about me in kind of in the order that they thought applied to me. So just list out like, what are things that he's interested in, characteristics that Arav has? And it's like, after seeing what I wrote and comparing that to what my parents wrote, it kind of— it really gave me a good view of like who I am, like what I can write about,
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