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College Admissions Essay: An Application For A Scholarship

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I believe that I am a great candidate for this scholarship because throughout my life I have tried my hardest to do my best to obtain an education that will take me down the right path. My family has always taught me to depend on myself as much as I possibly can before asking for help. I believe this is what I was taught because my family wanted to show and teach me individual responsibility in order to be a productive citizen in this country. With that in mind I plan on funding my own education to the best of my ability. I have a good foundation starting in high school with a 3.89 unweighted GPA and a 4.21 weighted GPA as well as a 96.88 numeric average which placed me at 6th in my class of 76. I believe this shows that throughout my years in high school I have been …show more content…

I will be taking a difficult collegiate path as I will be majoring in Aerospace Engineering and possibly minoring in Nuclear Power Generation Systems and Political Science. I find that Aerospace Engineering fits me the best because I love space, love solving problems, and want to send mankind to Mars and into deep space. After college I would like to work for NASA or SpaceX to help further the push to explore space and planets more in depth and up close than we ever have before. I feel that I am a good candidate for this scholarship because of my drive and how determined I am to succeed in life. I have had trials and tribulations in life and I have succeeded and failed, but I always keep going because I am extremely determined to do my best in life and want nothing less. I like to challenge myself when it comes to school because I love to learn new things especially when it is something I want to learn about. I want nothing more than to have some kind of financial security going into college so I can focus more on school and less on

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