I'd choose this dialogue to revise your sentence:
<span>“Did you hear?” I asked them. “My painting got selected! Exciting, right?” I smiled. “Especially given that I felt so incompetent at the beginning and that the competition was ruthless!”
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It feels like the option that best uses the dialogue to improve this sentence, because the other options are either too informal or just the same sentence as the original one.
Where is the poem? I could help if you uploaded a picture
D. Academic integrity is the best answer for the question Which of the following would not be a section on a college application?
Academic integrity is generally not present in a college application.
