First of all, yes of course my little hypothetical situation would include UG, major, extracurriculars, etc. I should've included resume when I listed GPA, LSAT, writing samples and recommendations.
Secondly, I'm really don't think that explaining about your personal hardships should be a factor. Because you know what? I am a white, middle class girl. I have two parents and enough money to be comfortable and my life seems great.
However, that does not mean I haven't had hardships in my life. The hardships didn't stem from discrimination, but my life has not been all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. However, my hardhips are extremely personal and not only do I not want to write about them in a PS, I don't think that they should be used as an excuse for why I did this or why I got that B or why my LSAT score is 167 or whatever. I guarantee you that everybody applying for law school could write a PS about some obstacle they overcame. And I just think, "No. Life's tough, suck it up." Put your best resume, LSAT, GPA, recs, and writing sample forward and let the chips fall where they may. Because everybody's life has been hard in some way.
Has anybody ever heard of the old game show Queen for a Day? The gist of it was 3 housewives would come on this show and basically talk about how crappy their lives are. ("Well, Bob lost his job and I have a wooden leg and little Billy's iron lung doesn't work and we had to sell little Susie's kidney in order to pay for little Mary's glass eye") (That was supposed to be humorous, by the way. If you have a glass eye, wooden leg or iron lung, I did not mean to offend.)
So after these 3 women got done prattling off their laundry list of hardships, the audience voted for whichever woman they thought had the worst life and then she won a washer and dryer or something. It was ridiculous. But my point is that I don't want to hear about everybody's problems. I think that because everyone can point to hardships that it just should all be considered a wash.
Also, about this URM thing. I don't really understand how they determine what gets to be a URM. I mean, homosexuals are a URM and one could argue that they face more discrimination and hate crimes than any ethnicity. Why does diversity automatically equal racial diversity? I bet Yale's class of 2007 doesn't have any female-Hawkeye-football-fan-Theatre-majors. Consequently, I would make their class more diverse.

Also, I hope that I did not make anyone angry (Like Maricutie, who by the way has the cutest avatar I've ever seen. Makes you wanna hug her or smack her.

) I truly was just offering a hypothetical idea. I'm not trying to be offensive or anything. And I also don't appreciate my comments being called "effin' ridiculous." If you want to oppose me, just state your argument. No need to drag degrading remarks and profanity into this.
Andie
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