Hey everyone, I was looking for some advice regarding writing a diversity statement. I wasn't originally going to write one, since I am a white, upper-middle class female who hasn't experienced too much hardship in my life for the most part. However, the admissions course includes: "you were or are burdened with an unusual responsibility" as a topic for diversity statements, and I was wondering if y'all believe my situation would apply:
Not to go into too much detail, but I was in a serious relationship with someone who struggled with a severe addiction disorder. It greatly affected my personal and professional life because I was primarily the only person who was there to take care of my partner. I'm just not sure if that admissions officers would see that experience the same as taking care of a sibling or parent with addiction. Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks in advance.
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I felt similarly when I first started experimenting with skipping (I realized I was skipping questions I shouldn't have and just freaking out that I skipped so many) so I adjusted my strategy a bit. I decided that if I skipped any question(s) on a page I would come back to it after I finished all of the questions on the two pages in front of me so that I wouldn't be leaving it for the end (and freaking out about the total amount of questions I skipped) but I would still give myself a short time away from the question so I could come back and hopefully understand it. In other words, I wouldn't turn the page until my skipped questions were answered. I'm not sure if this makes sense, but if questions 1-8 are in front of me and I skipped #2, I'd finish the rest of 1-8 first, then go back to #2 and answer it before turning the page and moving on to 9-15 on the next two pages. I hope this helps even though my explanation was a little wonky
I also do this, especially with RC. I find I save more time when I go back to the questions that I skipped while still on the passage, rather than waiting till the end of the section and having to completely refresh myself on each passage. Plus, since the questions for each passage in RC are dealing with the same subject matter (unlike LR), doing some of the other questions for the passage can help me to better see the answers for the previous questions I skipped.