My Diversity Report

Diversity is most often interpreted as the presence of various races or ethnic groups in a given environment. It is not often that diversity is associated and interpreted in relation to the presence of different age ranges within an environment. Every day of my life I encounter new challenges that illustrate just how important diversity in relation to age is and just how much I am able to contribute and raise awareness for this largely unrecognized group of excluded. I am a senior in highschool, I am also 14 years old. I take college level courses, and I am 14 years old. I play a significant leadership and service role in my community and my school, and I am only 14 years old. Because I am so young and I exist as such a vital part of my community I can offer an aspect of diversity to a college community that, for the most part, is unheard of.
I have what some people might call an outlandish amount of cognitive abilities. By the time I was nine months old I could walk and talk, and at two I could read and write. By the end of pre-school, my school offered to let me skip

I am told that I am not truly able to make a difference in the world or work for change because I am just too young to matter. My perspectives and insights are written off because “only an adult could think of that”. I am not allowed to participate in activities, despite my credentials, because of my young age. I think that this largely unnoticed form of discrimination can be combated if there were simply a larger effort to desegregate institutions that are based upon age, and integrate communities based upon abilities instead of age. By bringing diversity into the college community in the form of my age, I can disassemble the stereotypes and preconditions that exist in relation to being a young