Describe How You Have Taken Advantage Of A Significant Educational Opportunity

Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome and educational barrier you have faced.

Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome and educational barrier you have faced.

Becoming a MAWHIBA student. MAWHIBA is an organization that takes the top students in the nation and gives them many opportunities like college experiences and the ability to conduct research with college professors. I was the only one in my middle school to pass the test and I ended up getting sent to a private high school in a classroom for gifted students. This is a major turning point in my life. The classroom is full of smart students who gave me a challenge trying to beat them in grades. It was also fun being in a class full of people who want to learn, ask smart questions, and understand tutoring. Every time we have an exam, I always run around the class teaching everyone and learning from them anything I missed or didn’t fully comprehend.

I constantly have people asking me why I try so hard in school, why I take hard classes, or why I took a hard schedule for my senior year of high school. A lot of my classmates call me crazy for being such a “try hard,” and they tell me I should have taken an easy senior year. I always just joke back, “I don’t know, maybe I’m just a nerd,” and then we all chuckle and move on to talk about fantasy football or something. I do not take hard classes because I think it is fun staying up till two in the morning a couple nights a week doing homework. I have a 4.0+ GPA and score a 28 on my ACT because I stay up until two in the morning doing homework. I stay up until two in the morning doing homework because I have a dream to get accepted to Colorado State University and to major in biomedical and mechanical engineering. I also have a dream to leave this world a better place than it was the day I came into it. I want to make an impact on the people around me, and I can do that through my work as an engineer. The first step to accomplishing this dream is to get accepted into

First, my academic grades in every class of mine is an A or A+, and this has been the case throughout my entire academic career. English and Language Arts may not be my forte, however, with hard work and perseverance, any obstacle in my way can be overcome. My goal has always been and always will be to complete my assignments and work with perfection and efficiency. This means that all my work

As stated before, I sometimes become lazy/lethargic. Being an achiever is very temporary for me. For instance, throughout the school year, Im an overachiever when it comes to impressing the teacher in the beginning of the school year. I try super hard when it comes down to important assignments that will cost my grade to either plummet or soar. Its either I dont do something or do it way over the expectation. I like to impress people but if its someone or something that isnt important, I wouldnt give it my all. Its never in between. I dont put much effort into anything else like quizzes or short essays. Sometimes I feel as though when I become an overachiever I feel like a show off and people see me as a try hard. After the activities, my opinions did not change. I learned that I should be more outspoken, sympathetic, and that being an achiever is okay and should always be applied despite the importance. It makes my character look good and that I'm able to withstand any circumstance that is set right in front of me. When it comes down to being an overachiever, thats even better and I shouldnt let the thought of being a "show off" get to me. I also learned that keeping to myself isnt always great because sometimes you do need someone to be there for you when you want to vent. I should start opening up to more people without overlooking what might to come even its bad or

Through my four years of high school I have achieved many goals, and one goal would have to be the time I got chosen to be Vice President of Health Occupations Students of America at United High School. This achievement brought a positive effect to my family and I. Many might say that applying for this position was a piece of cake, but in reality it was a long process to be where I am right now. Till this day this organization has been lifted and will still continue

Challenges and opportunities have shaped my early education, my pursuit of my General Education Diploma, and my future educational goals.

Instead of going to a four-year college, enrolling instead at a community college. Then I had to work full-time while keeping up with a full-time college schedule. That lasted for some time, but eventually, something had to give and it was school. I kept working, telling myself that I'd go back. I got married, and a few years later lost my job. Here was my chance to go back to school, I thought. Life had other plans and instead, I got a divorce and moved back home to my parents. I needed to do something for work, and unemployment offered the ability to let me go back to school - but only for a technical degree. So I did that. Two years later, I had a degree that I've never been able to use, and the realization that I really could do well in school based on the grades I got. That bolstered

Since a very young age I understood the importance of having an education. Growing up in a very poor and undereducated neighborhood, I saw education as a way out as opposed to a waste of time. In a community where the educated were poor and the criminals were rich it was very easy to become distracted. I grew up with neither my mother nor father to look up to, as I was raised solely by my grandparents. So many obstacles only pushes me harder. I always looked to myself to be an inspiration to both my family and community that completing college and having a career isn’t as difficult as it may seem.

I have always had a strong passion for school and I believe you can really see part of that in my transcript. The majority of all my classes since freshman year are averaged in 90’s and above, which I am proud of becuase it took hard work to keep everything in my life balanced out. I rank 14 out of 84 in my class, and although that may seem very impressive, I strongly believe I should be in the top 10 percentile of my class becuase I am deserving and always honest of the work I submit. My highest SAT score is an 1180, which again, for someone who doesn’t know me, may seem impressive, but I know I could have done better. Like many people, standardized tests give them anxiety, but I know that my score doesn’t define me as a student. The type

The transform from a high school student to a college graduate comes with surprises and lessons. The realization of those obstacles forced me to form me some habits that adapt well into work and I utilized the knowledge I learned during college to solve real world problems. I hope learning these lessons I’ve gained through my experience will lead me to a further success in my future career.

Write an essay to explain what you have discovered about yourself. What are your strengths? How has your Pathway Academic Start experience enriched or challenged you? What goals will you work toward accomplishing as you move forward?

An educational opportunity that I have taken advantage of is the free education America provides to children whether they are citizens or not. I’m from Mexico and the education there is really expensive which causes the majority of students to drop out. I am thankful for my parent's decision to bringing me here to America because I wouldn't have been able to have an education at all. I choose to continue high school because an education is worth so much, I should take advantage of the opportunities I come across because others aren't as lucky as I am.

Many of my peers know me to be a sedulous person. I have always had to work harder than everyone else to get decent grades and even then I still did not do as well as most of my peers. However, my junior year of high school my hard work paid off. I was determined to excel, and I wanted to prove to everyone I had potential. I put 110% into all of my assignments and I used other resources to get ahead of my classmates. Conversely, there were nights where I felt like I would never be as intelligent as my friends but I continued to work diligently. There were many days where I stayed after school to work with the teachers in my school’s learning center. In addition, I started to go to a tutor for a few of my classes to get extra help. I did everything