{"id":111395,"date":"2023-10-16T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=111395"},"modified":"2023-10-16T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:46:33","slug":"the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=111395","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the &#8220;trauma essay&#8221; in college applications | Tina Yong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if college applications aren&#8217;t stressful enough, disadvantaged youth are often encouraged to write about their darkest traumas in their admissions essays, creating a marketable story of resilience that turns &#8220;pain into progress,&#8221; says politics student Tina Yong. She brings this harrowing norm to light, exploring its harms and offering a more equitable process for colleges everywhere&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/tina_yong_the_rise_of_the_trauma_essay_in_college_applications?rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if college applications aren&#8217;t stressful enough, disadvantaged youth are often encouraged to write about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong.jpg",480,270,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong.jpg",480,270,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong.jpg",480,270,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong.jpg",480,270,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong.jpg",480,270,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong.jpg",480,270,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong.jpg",480,270,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/111395-the-rise-of-the-trauma-essay-in-college-applications-tina-yong.jpg",480,270,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}