College Admissions Essay: Obtaining A Scholarship

The College JumpStart Scholarship will help me attain my goals by earning my bachelor degree in graphic design so I can become a professional graphic designer to a purse a career of my dreams. I am very compassionate about graphic design and how it can help me to achieve to start my own business to share my creativity and gift of art and share my amazing designs to people. I was accepted to University of North Florida and will begin classes in the fall semester. In order to fulfill my bachelor degree, I need this scholarship to pay for books, classes, art supplies, and living expenses on the campus. As a struggle college student, this scholarship will strength my opportunities at UNF to take advance graphic design classes so I can able to graduate

My father is going to retire in some years and my mother is a house wife. They both have invested in their house heavily therefore these reasons might affect my family’s ability to fund my college tuition.

My effort to serve my community have been an immensely important area that I always try to expand on. From my hundred and seventy service hours, I have learned that giving back even in small amounts positively affects the lives of the people involved. My favorite memories of serving my local area is during the special NJROTC ceremonies when I am able to see the wonderful faces of veterans and military families when we present the colors or the veteran with a flag. Through school, I have been able to see the faces of incoming freshmen in my workroom mature into the present sophomores and the students today. In my church, I am apart of the Ushering team which assists with the service every few weeks. Through this, I am able to see the bright

From the time I was born until the age of twelve, my family struggled with the basic necessities of life. My father worked endless hours in a factory, and yet somehow came home with a smile on his face. As a young kid, I never knew we were struggling. The thought had never occurred to me. As I got older I started to realize that my single father was working his life away to care and provide for his two little girls. He completely put aside his well-being because as long as his girls were cared for, nothing else mattered. Life was never easy, but as a young adult today, I have come to accept that my background has been a prerequisite for greatness, for it is our backgrounds that define who we are. The way we are raised, the way we are taught to believe, and the way we are taught to act, make us who we are today.

FFA has been very big part of my agricultural experiences and has opened many doors for me. It has taught me premier leadership as I have moved up in the FFA chapter. Also it has helped me become more outgoing than shy. By joining FFA and becoming more outgoing I have become more connected to other people in the ag field that I meet from FFA community events, FFA organization events, and customers shopping at Orscheln Farm and Home. One of the biggest things that has helped me develop into a young adult is being elected President of our local FFA chapter, by having more responsibilities and learning how to lead an organization. A huge thing that opened my eyes to how big the agriculture industry is, was attending National FFA Convention. I

I grew up in a world of little things. I appreciated the details in my daily life - the way my mothers voice changed as she read to me, the innumerable times my father checked his pockets before leaving for work. I liked the comfort of cramped library corners and well explored territory and small state schools. Growing up in Asheville, I considered myself wordly enough- I couldn’t imagine anything bigger than the mountains and stories ever-present around town.

Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested in movies. My grandma, who was full of the wise the life experience left, always knew about my interest in movies. She feed my vain for the art. Even though her religion, she professed Adventist of seven-day religion, didn't let her go to the cinema, she always found the way to took me to the cinema. She and I enjoyed watch movies. We used to sit in the darkness room, with our faces illuminated from the reflection of the light which rebooted from the screen, both absorbs in the plot of the movie which made us laughed or cried. After the movie, while we went back to her home, she started to talk about the movie. She had a particular point of view where the main story

I believe in the importance of earning a college degree. Therefore, I plan to work extra hard to obtain a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, and then proceed to get my Master in Student Affairs and work in higher education. This scholarship award will only push me further towards my degree and my dreams of one day having a successful career in Higher Education. Being the first generation in my family to attend college, I have always aspired to learn the right way to manage money and this scholarship will help that. This award can enhance my educational goals and aspirations.

Throughout high school, I always envisioned myself majoring in International Business and achieving the highest degree in that field. But, this past year and a half, along with the tense political season made me realize my true passion for politics. After thinking about it restlessly, I decided that it majoring in Political Science would be the most interesting and beneficial for me and my future.

I think I am worthy to be the appropriate candidate of this scholarship. I am very indomitable person by nature, this is the quality that I inherit from my parents and how a certain special person inspired me to be like that. As any human being, I have limits to each task, but I am very excellent in team play, I listen well and I am able to give a supportive answer and action.

For one of many reasons, I qualify for the Nina Mason Pulliam Legacy Scholarship program because as a juvenile I was in custody of the state and attended a group home named Penny Lane located in North Hills California. At the time when I resided there I was 16 years old. I’ am now twenty-six years old and I care for two dependents whom are my children. My children are now 7 and four years of age. At the age of seventeen I dropped out of high school and became pregnant the following year. The fact that I was soon becoming a mother, I wanted to go back to school but was discouraged and had no positive role models to look up to. When I finally gained the courage to attend school and obtain my G.E.D I was one step closer to starting my journey. The following year I enrolled to college and became the first person in my family to enroll in college. Enrolling in college was foreign to me and I felt alone because no one else in my family can relate.

This is Sara Pabich a current student at Sturgeon Bay High School interest in a one time scholarship. My consular, Mrs. O’Handley, referred me to about this possible scholarship to help further my education by attending a Pre-College Program at Harvard University.

Being brought up in a military family, I knew what it meant to serve. Many of the influential men in my life dedicated themselves to the service of others. For the majority of my life, I believed that I too would follow in the footsteps of my father, uncles, and grandfathers before me. I wanted to help other just as they had, and imagined myself enlisting in the Air Force when I “grew up”. As I matured, I discovered that there are numerous ways to serve those around me outside of the military.

Some of my first picture books were medical textbooks. I used to sit with a huge volume on my lap or spread out on the floor and flip through the pages, fascinated by the inner workings of our bodies. A strong influence on my interest in the medical field has been my father, who is a general and bariatric surgeon. Every day, he improves the quality of his patients’ lives and shows them how to make positive changes and choices that lead to a healthier and better life. We can’t go anywhere as a family without people recognizing him with a, “Hey, Doctor Selwyn!” and a conversation, in true Midwestern fashion. This is truly a testament to his dedication to forming strong doctor-patient relationships built on trust, respect, and communication. This is how I endeavor to conduct myself as a physician for American Indian and Alaska Native people. With the assistance of the Indian Health Service Pre-Graduate Scholarship, I hope to honor the lives of those in my family and tribal community who have been affected by diabetes, obesity, and other health issues prevalent in the American Indian and Alaska Native community by committing myself to serve in a Indian Health Service hospital or clinic and providing the highest quality health care possible.

Attach an essay explaining your outstanding loyalty and service to your school, community and family. Include how your future plans will involve service to others.