College Admissions Essay: What Makes Me Who I Am

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I have often wondered what it is that makes me who I am. Is it the way I look, or is it my personality? Is it the way I dress? Is it the way I walk? I am who I am. Not what you want me to be, I am me. There is no label or description to define me. I am proud multicultural girl, that gets to be apart of many cultures. I come from an African American Southern Creo mother and a African American Cuban father. I am a girl that shows all characteristics of all the ethnicities that I have inherited. With all these ethnicities I am full of soul with a little bit of spice, and sometimes nice. With all that soul, I am a blessed teenage girl. I am blessed by all the opportunities God has given me in my life. I am blessed by the people who surround

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