Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking?


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Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking?


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College admissions essay

Prompt: Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome? This is my college admissions essay. I am 17 and i want it to focus on Changing society which is something I tried to change. My story is that I was born in America but my parents are from Pakistan. Half of life I was a normal American child while the other I was a cultured Pakistani kid at home. I spoke English outside and Urdu in the house. Many kids say it’s easy to be multicultural but it’s not. I had no sense of normal. Growing up I wasn’t allowed sleep overs but girls at my school were. Growing up I wasn’t allowed to date but girls at my school were. When I was about 15 I reached my breaking point. I wanted to try out for the cheer team. I was told “loge ky kange” which means what will be say. This is same reason I was told I couldn’t date, or go to sleepovers. My journey was altered I wanted to challenge every view that was lied in front of me to accept. I wasn’t allowed to hang out with my guy friends and as a way to challenge the view I started to hangout with them and including them in group hangouts because I believed in equality. Women from gen x and above thought it was okay to criticize and judge someone for being obese. Since I was American half the time I told them that it was better to appreciate people the way they are and encourage them to be confident. During this time I came into the official high school building and got to go to homecoming. I wanted to wear a dress that wasn’t all the way to floor because i couldn’t dance in it. So that nigh I wore a mid length dress. I wasn’t allowed to wear a dress showing any skin less because of religion but more because of “what would people say” I grew up in America so I didn’t see showing legs a sexual thing I posted my pictures on Instagram like every teen would. My family called my mom and told her. I was told it was a sexual act and that I should think what others will think before I act. This was beyond my understanding because when I saw a girl with a dress all dolled up I though she looked good and she was having a fun time. What pushed everyone’s limits with me was when I decided to like someone for the first time. I acknowledged that I was only in high school and nothing was serious but it was treated as if he and I got married. He was a white Christian and it didn’t bother me because I was accepting of alll cultures and religions. I had to deny him because the though of a Pakistani girl with a white big challenged all the views ahead of me. It would show society that my parents didn’t raise me well and that my parents were too modern by letting me like someone who was out of our culture. It was frowned upon so like always I got the response log kye kange. I felt like I was living life on what others wanted me to be. I didn’t feel like I had any control of my life decisions. I didn’t want to be Pakistani it felt like a curse. I realized this constant battle couldn’t be fought by society being wrong and me being right or visa versa. For a while a thought of a compromise or a validation for this behavior and one day my mom said she didn’t understand what Easter was for. It doesn’t seem like a very interesting statement but within that statement I firgured it out. I couldn’t fight my parents and society because over 90% of Pakistani’s in society were born in Pakistan and came here. The last thing they saw was these views. If they stayed in Pakistan they would be more open to change because they wouldn’t be set on preserving cultural values. While in America all they are set on doing is preserving cultural values.They only seen Pakistani boys marry Pakistani girls, they didn’t see girls and boys dating, they didn’t wear dresses that exposed skin because they grew up in Islamic county, girls were told to maintain themselves for suitors, accepting rules put in front of them was the way they grew up and for similar reasons she didn’t know about Easter. She never celebrated it. In that moment I hit me that everyone judging me had grown up with this values, the only values they knew about. I had grown up two sets of values. Society wasn’t bad it was just something way bigger than me. Society will only change when the mindset of the society change. When My generation people grow up our views will be the “society rules”. Cause of this experience I will be more open to change when I am older with my kids. Change is part of society. I want my essay to revolve around these ideas. I would like if you could communicate with me just so you don’t write an essay that I doesn’t suits my needs. If you need to add in some of your own thoughts that correspond with this go for it! My number is 4254990516. This is my college admissions essay so thank you very much. I am very easy going so please feel free to call me anytime. It can only be 350 max!