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Rutgers Application Essay: My Fascination With Barbie Dolls

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Rutgers Application Essay
My fascination with Barbie dolls during my younger years foreshadowed what I would later consider my greatest source of misery. To the dismay of my “moderately conservative” town in the otherwise liberal state of New Jersey, I turned my back to G.I. Joe and cleats and gravitated toward 2002’s more glamorous icons: Barbie, Ken, and their collapsible mansion. My childhood went buy without much turmoil, but by the eighth grade, the “guys” (a group from which I was formally excluded after expressing no interest in hips, lips or curves) finally paid notice to the crack in my closet door.
We were in gym class in late May - the closest fourteen-year-old me had come to purgatory - and I was up to bat. It was a close game, and after a few missed pitches, I noticed a resounding jeer: “Cupcake.” A brief moment of confusion ensued before I realized something that would haunt me for the remainder of my adolescence: I was Cupcake. Having been reduced to a …show more content…

In the future, I hope I can have as much an impact on the next generation of misfit youths as my band director had on me, and will consider my life a success if I can teach my students as much about compassion and acceptance as I can tetrachords and “two-five-one” progressions. The key to this goal is earning a degree in music education from an institution as well regarded as Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. I believe the leadership skills I have developed as a three-year section leader in my high school marching band, as well as my belief in the importance service and kindness qualify my admission into Rutgers, and I am confident that the university’s superior music education program will empower me to pursue my dream of helping others rise against their adversity through the art of

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