A Career In My Life

Four or Five years ago if you were to tell me that I would be confidently applying to the University of Miami I would have laughed. Through high school I did not give much effort and like most of my peers, thought that furthering my education was my only option. Nearing the end of my senior year I started realizing that no noteworthy university would even consider accepting someone like me. As the days ticked away, I applied to a nearby college with an incredibly high acceptance rate and found myself opening an acceptance letter a few weeks later.

I continued auditioning to various New York City colleges and observatories for acting and got accepted into quite a few! My main choice was Pace University, and I was all prepared to go, but that’s when tragedy struck. Okay, “tragedy” might be a tad overdramatic, but nonetheless; my stepdad had lost his job, and alongside the significant drop in our income, he decided to move to Texas in order to pursue a job there. My family couldn’t really afford both my stepdad’s dream of going to Texas as well as my dream of studying in New York City, so in the end, I decided not to fall into a spiral of debt by declining any college acceptances I’d received. Thus, I ended up at Wor-Wic, to continue my education while trying to build up more money to study something I’m

“You are at the #1 public university in the world,” are the words implanted into the University of California, Berkeley. UC Berkeley is defined as #1 for its programs, history, faculty, environment, and prospective influences but ultimately, what defines UC Berkeley are its students. Through the impact its students make and the legacies they leave, a high level of prestige has been established when discussing the university. Another aspect of the university that engenders prestige is the admission process, which is set in place to assess who would best “fit” the university. A project done in 1999 that produced a film called “Making the Grade,” observes two students from two different school dynamics in San Francisco that both want to attend

Research indicates a steep upward trend in the cost of higher education throughout the 20th century. In recent decades, America has witnessed a widening gap between inflation and tuition. An incoming freshman at a typical college incurs charges for tuition, university fees, books, room and board,

I have always known that I wanted to attend a top-tier university. The other details came later; the small size, the proximity to an urban hub, and my major itself. For a while, I was convinced that it would not happen; that I just wouldn’t get in. Now, I realize that I have an opportunity to do so. This is an opportunity I do not intend to waste.

A very popular topic these days is College tuition. For what seems to be ages, people didn’t give much attention to the cost of tuition. However, in current times theres been a dramatic change. It seems that everyday, several people are coming to the harsh realization of how high tuition has gotten over the years and they wish to see a change. In this essay, I shall attempt to cover a very serious and hard topic. I say that because in the process of finding information for this topic, there are several articles showing examples of people attacking administrations in serious anger. Little to no information was found giving an example of college staff and administration trying to defend or speak up. Before beginning research for this paper, I believed there would have been several arguments made between enraged parents, students, graduates and administration. Though, upon examination I found my thoughts to be confirmed as false for the most part.

On December 2, 2016, in the opinion editorial, “How to Get In,” Susan Estrich, best-selling author and liberal columnist for the Creators, argues that hard work, not college acceptances, determine people’s future successes, challenging the notion that people’s opportunities and potentials are defined by the colleges they enter. Refuting the misconception that “getting into the right college is a meal ticket for life,” Estrich argues that GPA’s and LSAT’s may decide the difference between rejection and acceptance, but ultimately, tenacious hard work throughout life counts “for more than anything else,” before concluding that the “secret to a good application” is honesty and that, although she understands admissions can be partisan and erroneous through personal experience, in the end, she “did just fine”- an echoing sentiment to all prospective college applicants. Estrich

America’s education system has been in a state of distress for the past decade, but garnished headlines recently as the student loan debt crisis reached over a trillion dollars. In conjunction with that, tuition is no longer the only obstacle a student faces when considering their future. As generations come and go, universities have slowly, but surely, been angling their education in a way to favor profit over knowledge. Because of the new direction higher education models are taking, Magdalena Kay questions her readers, “is there a problem with students, with teachers, with administrators, or maybe

Deborah Caldwell shares her emotional experiences with the college education system in her essay “My Son Was Accepted to a College He Can’t Afford. Now What?” that I hope will not reflect my own. I am a High School Senior who is planning to attend college in the upcoming term, going through the selection process just as Caldwell describes. Just like my mother, She takes pride in the achievements of her children and is proud they are accepted to prestigious schools for all their hard work. I see my family through her experiences as the year unfolds and I apply for federal aid. Just like many other middle class families, we are neither rich enough to afford university tuition without aid nor poor enough to qualify for government assistance programs.

One of the leading proponents of this theory is William Bowen, an economist and former president of Princeton. In a 2009 book called “Crossing the Finish Line,” Bowen and his coauthors found that the harder-to-get-into colleges that they studied had higher graduation rates for all types of students, even those the admissions office might have worried about admitting in the first place.

Today we were given a presentation by two great men on the topic of college and what to expect and paying tuition. As we all know; college is extremely important for those of us looking to get a high paying and respected job. We who live in western democracies like ours, have a civil duty to pursue higher education for the betterment of society and ourselves! For us to waste this great privilege is a travesty. With so many options to help pay for or assist in the paying of tuitions; get out there and educate

I believe that I am a perfect fit for the University of California due to my characteristics that set me far apart from other candidates which are unique. The first characteristic I have is doing the right things, even when nobody's watching. This means that I have integrity and character to complement my ability to get things done. Also It’s easy to do the right thing when you have people around, but it takes courage and strength of character to do the right thing when you’re alone, however I do it at all times due to my integrity and respect for whatever reason or situation occurs, and I Stay true to my very own values even when everyone around me is floundering, or when popular opinion goes against what you know in your heart to be right.

Even though America’s universities have raised their tuition fees five times faster than inflation within the past 30 years, colleges can still be heard begging for money from alumni and philanthropists (“How to make college cheaper”). Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard University, once stated, “universities share one characteristic with compulsive gamblers and exiled royalty: there is never enough money to satisfy their desires” (“How to make college cheaper”). Nonetheless, these colleges

Montclair State University is a well talked about university and has an amazing amount of opportunities to pursue my career and more. To get into Montclair State University, I rely on my academic strengths. A few of those strengths are my communication skills, problem-solving skills, critical-thinking skills, self-examination, and challenging myself. Many different types of scenarios happen in one’s life, but others are forever changed by those situations. The ending of my freshman year of high school I was told I was moving to the state of Florida and other’s may have been excited about that, but I was not. I felt paralyzed as those words began to register in my mind. Everything around me began to proceed in slow motion and my stomach had turned. What seemed to

The career that intrigues me is elementary education, which is kindergarten through 8th grade. I am engrossed in this career because I have little siblings that I had to teach them things like reading, math, and writing properly. Also, I just love, love, love little kids and to watch them grow. My personality goes with this career because I am a very kind and considerate person and I like people. My values go with this career because I like having the defiance and the opportunity to do my work in new ways and with independence and diversity. Also, I like feat which is having the feeling that what I do in my work is crucial and making a contribution. Lastly I value my workplace and having the pleasure of working in a satisfying, attractive work space where the supervisors and co-workers are supportive and friendly. I expect that being a teacher at a school will have all these conditions. Kindergarten and elementary school teachers work in public or private schools. Seeing students develop new skills and learn information can be very rewarding.