I think I was too honest and won't get called up.

Well, I’m applying through UWC Brazil, and today is the day they announce who has been selected for the interviews and exams. Honestly, I suspect I’ll be rejected. I know why UWC was founded and I understand the values they cherish. I know they tell us to be completely open and sincere about our lives, but I think my background might scare the evaluators and lead to my elimination. The reason is simple: my family was persecuted during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Specifically, I am the great-nephew of a prominent politician who fought against the military dictatorship in the state of Goiás. My family suffered greatly; people were killed. One of the most shocking cases I know of involves my great-uncle’s first wife, who was burned alive by the military. My great-uncle was a state deputy—Brazil's first peasant state deputy—and he personally fought against the powerful landowners who were exploiting the peasants in our region. The city where I live now used to be an area full of unclaimed farmland. Wealthy landowners forged documents claiming that a vast tract of land—over 800,000 square kilometers—belonged to someone who didn't even live in Goiás; they claimed they had purchased the land and that the people living there were doing so illegally, Essentially, the situation was this: either you paid a price to own your land—a price none of those people could afford, given that they were landless migrants arriving from elsewhere in Brazil with nothing and had simply found a small plot to live on—or, if you couldn't pay, you were forced to sign a document stipulating that half of everything you planted and harvested belonged to the "barons." My great-uncle was always suspicious of this arrangement; when he became a state deputy, he confronted the state governor, and together they discovered that the document was a forgery. There is also a crucial detail: people who failed to honor the contract the barons forced us to sign were tortured. I know of cases where people had their fingernails torn out, their mustaches ripped off with pliers, and suffered other atrocities I’d rather not recount here because they are too horrific. My uncle opposed the system and confronted the barons—nearly getting killed by their henchmen in the process—but he succeeded in securing the land for the peasants and founding the town, Everything seemed fine for my uncle until the military dictatorship took hold in Brazil; he was one of the first to be targeted. He went underground and managed to escape for a time, but other relatives were caught—some suffered lasting trauma that eventually led to their deaths, while others were killed. My grandfather always stood by my great-uncle and supported him throughout the persecution he faced during the military dictatorship; he even had to leave our state—leaving my grandmother and the children behind so as not to put them at risk. Both my grandfather and great-uncle were nearly caught by the military on several occasions. My grandmother remained incredibly strong; she didn't sit idly by during that time—she stayed in our city looking after my aunts, uncles, and mother, all while hiding what she knew from the military and praying and doing everything she could to avoid capture. Tragically, in an effort not to endanger his second wife and children, my uncle was eventually captured by the military and taken to prison, where he was held for a long time before becoming a victim of enforced disappearance. To this day, we do not know exactly what happened or when he died—whether it was during the dictatorship or after it ended. My grandfather—who, until recently, was the last surviving sibling—passed away on August 18th of this year. Before he died, when I was six, he told me our family history; by the time I was ten, I had begun to immerse myself in this cause. Since 2000, my family has been fighting for amnesty, and we are part of a political group made up of the children and grandchildren of those persecuted or killed during the dictatorship. I have traveled to Brasília several times to fight for my family's amnesty and have had the honor of speaking face-to-face with the head of Brazil's Amnesty Commission, as well as the current government's Secretary-General of Communications; I have photos and records of both meetings, You might be wondering why I’m telling you all this. Well, it’s because I included details about this part of my life and this story in my application essay... and I think that’s why I’m going to get rejected. Even though I seem to fit the profile UWC looks for, I feel like revealing this politically active side of me will get me disqualified immediately. It’s a shame, because there are other great aspects to my life—I’m currently an apprentice in a state government program, working right inside my city’s City Council; I attend voting sessions, handle documents, and am very active in that sphere. But I worry that by revealing I’m an active activist, the evaluators will look at my file, zero in on that, and say, "No, you’re an activist; we don’t think it’s best to bring you in—you might cause trouble with others—so you’re out." I know this might just be anxiety-fueled paranoia, but I can’t get these possibilities out of my head. So, I’m seriously asking anyone who is an active activist and went through the UWC process: Did you reveal this right away? Did it lead to your rejection or not? I’m sincerely asking for honest answers because I’m genuinely worried that this might have ruined whatever chance I had