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College Admissions Essay: No Excusess In High School

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Throughout all of my years of High School, there have been no excuses or reasons why I shouldn’t be at the top of my class. While there has been plenty of things that could have contributed to this none of them are acceptable. Whether it be my mother dropping me off for my last day of middle school and me getting home later that day to find out that she had been sent to jail. Or my dad never being in my life and my constant reaching out to him and feeling the disappointment and sadness every time as he said that he would come see me when he actually never did. Or worst of them all my mother being killed less than a year after being released from prison. While all of these things could make school harder and more challenging, none of these things are excuses because while I may have had it harder than some, there are definitely plenty who have had it harder than me, so as far as my educational struggles if there had to be any reasons why I’ve struggled the way I have it would have to be due to those reasons. …show more content…

One of them will be resilience because I don’t think most people could go through all that I’ve been through and be able to stay positive and hopeful like I have. Another one of my personal strengths is how committed I am to being successful and being able to make my family proud, and in the future being able to provide for my family and allowing them to be able to live a better life then I have in my youth. What I believe is my best strength is my open-mindedness. I’ve heard that when going to college I’ll encounter an incredible and diverse range of new ideas, people, and perspectives while on campus that will likely be unfamiliar to me.This will help me because I'm able to willingly and respectfully consider and listen to people with different perspectives and ideas, and not just think that it has to be my

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