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maybe you can talk about a disability or being alternatively abled and did you have to grow up in foster care did deportation affect your family are you an older adult hey it's angel with hardened hardship where the path to academic excellence should not be a secret this week's topic is diversity statements for weekly college and law school tips make sure you hit that subscribe button if you need one-on-one help with your college law school or grad school applications head over to Harvard hardship oh oh c-calm when it comes to choosing a topic I just want to preface this video by saying your diversity statement does not have to be an adversity statement I can't remember what schools website I was on but it was either like the law school or graduate school program and that's just some advice that they gave to their applicants and I thought that it was so profound so if you feel like your diversity you don't have a story about a particular hardship or you don't have like a struggle life story that's okay you you can you can talk about your diversity in other ways now if your diversity statement is more from the perspective of an adversity and it is more about hardship that's fine too I'm not knocking that but I just want to encourage people who feel like if they don't have that angle then they don't have a diversity statement that's not true I'm gonna remind of an episode on blackish where Zooey is um she's applying to college and like she's clearly in her college essay clearly like kind of fabricating and exaggerating her experience to make it more adverse than it really was you don't have to do that but just real quickly I want to give a list of topics to kind of help get your brain going on what you can write about so as far as if you do go that adversity route maybe you can talk about the number one thing that comes to my mind as far as I'm talking about an adversity you have to come you had to overcome is being low income but even being low income can run the gamut you can talk about being low income and you know living in poverty from an urban perspective and when I said living in poverty I feel like when I say poverty people automatically think like being homeless and living on the street or living out of a hut that is poverty but poverty simply means that some of your needs aren't being met so you can talk about being homeless in that time that definitely counts as a as adversity but there's other different types of income based adversity so maybe it's from the perspective perspective of or from the experience of being low-income and urban or you can talk about being low-income in a rural environment maybe you can talk about a disability or being alternatively abled it can be a physical ailment it can be a particular sickness or it can be a cognitive or mental issue did you have to grow up in foster care where you previously incarcerated did deportation affect your family but those are just some topics as far as if you want to go that adversity route in your diversity statement but maybe you don't have you don't want to talk about being or overcoming a particular hardship there is still a long list of things you can talk about for instance maybe you're an ethnic minority are you an immigrant or are you from a fan of a family from a first a first generation immigrant family are you a first generation college student are you an older adult you know it's not it that's diverse because most college and the law school students are tend to be you know younger so are you an older adult that is a form of diversity are you a single dad are you a single mom do you have some other type of unique situation so maybe you're a white minority so maybe you went to a high school where you were one or very few white students or maybe you went to a college where you were worthy white minority so now moving into actually crafting your diversity statement first off make sure you're using storytelling techniques I'm not going to go through all of the storytelling techniques but I would drop a link in the description the link to the video I did how to tell your story in your admissions essay but just very quickly make sure you have an engaging introduction make sure you're showing the reader showing the reader your diversity is supposed to telling them your endeavors and here's what I mean by that if I just say I'm diverse because I'm an immigrant and I had to move here from another country not only is that boring and you'll lose the reader like that but also your statement will be over like that because you haven't really said anything so make sure you're showing them telling them a specific story of what it means to be your type of diverse also make sure you're cognizant and very intentional about the angle of your diversity statement if you just start writing I'm diverse because I'm a single parent mom and I have to take care of my child when it's so hard what is you're not saying much and and and kudos to those single parents but I'm just saying from the perspective of storytelling and engaging your reader that's not saying much you have to have a theme what do you what impression do you want to leave the reader with about your story and about why you should be admitted into this institution and just really quickly I'm gonna go through some angles that you can use in your diversity statement what unique perspective has your diversity given you and why is that a benefit how can you apply that to the classroom how is that an asset to that score to that institution or why does that make sense to have that type of diversity considering the field or the type of program that you're applying to how has your type of diversity motivated you to attend college or how has your type of diversity motivated you to study the law or or to apply to that particular grad program has your type of diversity sparked a particular interest in a specific major or has it sparked a particular interest in a certain niche of the law or maybe your type of diversity has sparked an interest motivated you to study a certain social issue and that's why you want to attend this program has your adversity or diversity done wonders for you in terms of character development here's what I mean by that what skills or traits or particular character trait has your diverse situation or the adversity that you've overcome what has that developed in you and how is it transferable how are you going to transfer it and use it in that program or that institution that you're applying to so for instance if you're an immigrant and and you're applying to college your diversity statement you may spend the the first part of it showing how you know you moved to this country moved to a new country and you had to adjust to totally new surroundings make sure you tell a specific story to engage the reader of how you had to ingest to new surroundings and you were still able to thrive and so you can kind of round off and bring your diversity statement home by saying hey I mean not saying it like this but basically the theme is hey just like I was able to adjust to a new surrounding of moving to an entire entirely new country and developing all the character tricks that comes with that such as critical thinking skills and figuring things out and learning quickly in and making new friends and getting around I'll also be able to adjust to the new surrounding of my college environment and and thrive in this rigorous program one more quick example say your adversity or diversity statement is that your story is that your previously incarcerated individual and now you're applying to law school you can say that experience that diversity that adversity of being previously incarcerated has afforded you the unique perspective the unique skill of being on the other side of the law and that's an as that when it comes to law school because you know the intricacies of the law in a very intimate way as someone who has direct impact with it so if you have any questions about diversity statements in general make sure you drop them in the comments below and now come in and answer them over the next month or so lord I thank you for everyone that you have led to this video I just pray that if anyone is working on their diversity statement or their college admissions essay or whatever I say that they're working on that you would lead them and guide them um that you would just plant ideas in their mind and give them confidence in their story give them confidence in the beauty of that of their diversity help them to know that all things everything that has happened in our lives is working together for the good of those who love you and who are the called according to your purpose all these blessings ask in Jesus name Amen for weekly college and law school attempts make sure you hit that subscribe button if you need one-on-one help with your college law school or grad school application head over to Harvard hardship llc.com and I'll see you all next week [Music]