Host Ira Glass talks to Mariya Karimjee about a college application essay question. Essay B asks
students to imagine a person they might meet in college—someone from a very different
background. Ten years ago, Mariya’s mostly white high school classmates in Texas didn’t write
about an imaginary person they might meet in the future. They just wrote about the one different
person they already knew—Mariya. (15 minutes)