Diversity In America Pros And Cons

I'm in a situation most others don't have to experience, there are universities that won't accept me due to my legal issues. Albeit I've lived in the United States since I was seven, I've always been cast aside by society and the media as a lowly immigrant, an "alien." I've spent ten years in this education system and have grown and developed in this society, however just because I wasn't born here I'm treated as a second rate citizen, it wasn't my decision to make whether my family came here or not, I had no say. Despite that, I'm thankful I'm here now and have been fine with the circumstances until this year, now it's different, it's not just that I can't get a drivers license or go to the hospital because of the insane costs, or the fact that I'm somewhat of a social outcast in this society, and not to mention I can't ever leave the country to visit my family or ailing grandparents. I'm distraught because all that I've worked for since I've been here could be taken away so
I was put in a kindergarten class at seven years old, by the time fourth grade came around I qualified to enter a normal fourth-grade class but chose to stay with my bilingual friends because I felt alienated in the normal classes. That year my class wrote to Obama, it was his first year in office, we all wrote our own letters and then the principal sent them to the White House, I remember very vividly asking him if he could help my family become legal and why I was considered so different from everyone else, he responded with a generic letter to the whole class. I believe my decision as a nine-year-old to write to the President of the U.S. regarding my citizenship status was something special, at that time I was afraid of anyone finding out I was illegal, I thought if anyone knew then I would be deported, it was a brave act and I think that it goes to show that I've been thinking about the bigger picture for a quite a while, I've always felt more mature than my