Im applying for as many scholarships as possible, and one of them is an equity scholarship. It's asking me to describe how I overcame hardship as a person from a marginalized community and how i'd be supported by a scholarship. However, I have to write this all in under 250 words which is fucking insane to me like what can I even write with that many words?
I'm going for a law degree and the reason I'm passionate about the justice system is because I was bullied for being queer but it got to the point of my friends and i being made fun of for self harming, having mental illnesses, and attempting suicide. I swear that's relevant to queerness because of the strong association between poor mental health and queer students guys I'm not making this up like how people would make fun of someone's SH scars and end their sentence with a queer slur or calling queer friend groups suicide squad (I'm just saying this so I don't get responses of people acting like they have nothing to do with each other).
So that's like pretty graphic stuff and I don't know if the college would like that very much but at the same time there was no justice whatsoever for this experience and that fueled my anger and passion for fighting for other oppressed communities that NEVER face any justice because of this corrupt system. But also because I'm clearly an academic genius as you can surely tell from my writing skills, so I want to include that despite this major set back and everycunt trying to convince me to kms, I still managed to get really good academic and contribution awards because I wanted to prove everyone wrong. So how the fuck do I sum this up in 250 words? What do I cut out? Because maybe being made fun of for mental health is irrelevant to being queer and the reader will think I'm crazy. How do I include that this scholarship would help not only my future but my future clients if I hopefully become a lawyer?
This all sounds really stupid I swear when I'm feeling less conflicted I actually sound pretty smart