Freshman Year Application

I was terribly nervous because I did not know one single person at JM. I thought I was going to sit alone at lunch and I never would make any friends. I also thought that I would be lost on the first day and go to all the wrong classes! Surprisingly, I made a friend at freshmen orientation. Her name was Monita. Unfortunately, Monita and I had no classes together except for lunch. At least I had someone to sit with at lunch and one of my fears were gone. On my first day, I went to all my classes without any confusion. I was not lost and I made a few friends. Eventually, I began to make more friends and adjust to my new high school. I even went to the football

I’m applying to UA Early College because I want to be able to step into college ahead of the game. I have been an overachiever since I was little and take each chance I get handed to me. This program additionally prepares me for courses I will take when in college. It gives a more profound understanding of how classes will be and the paces they will go at.

My passion for mathematics was fixed at the age of ten, on the morning that my mathematics teacher told I would be sitting the Junior Maths Challenge, 'as practice for when you are older'. As I nervously started to answer the questions, a whole world began to open before me. I revelled in the problem solving, answering questions of a nature I had not seen before. My teachers were delighted when I emerged from the exam hungry for more. Since then I have consistently demonstrated my aptitude, achieving gold awards through to senior level, and scoring highly in the European Kangaroo.

My Junior Year of high school just recently started. I have learned so many different things while attending high school, and still have over a year to learn even more. As Matthew Kelly said, “whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future.” This means while I have done a lot in my past, I cannot change anything that has already happened, but I am able to change my future. One of the most important things that I am involved in right now is school. My first two years at CBHS were good, and I made decent grades. Some of the grades that I made I am not very happy with now but I cannot change that so I need to focus on my grades right now because those are the ones I can change.

Throughout my high school career, I have been involved in different professional societies such as the National Society of High School Scholars, Mu Alpha Theta (Math honors society), and Business Professionals of America. My involvement in these societies has made me knowledgeable in the logistics of how to run the society, and have taught me valuable skills such as leadership and collaboration. For logistics, I can help organize events such as fundraising activities or philanthropic events as I am currently on the social committee for Business Professionals of America, which is in charge of organizing social events for my chapter. As an elected member for the social committee, my chapter has shown faith in me for my leadership skills and collaboration skills. Overall, I feel like I can contribute a lot of my skills and knowledge to UIC honors college.

Though I haven’t had the most involvement in extracurricular activities, I have been trying to turn that around. I joined FCCLA at the start of freshman year. FCCLA was an excellent experience to improve my leadership skills, as well as getting engaged with the school and community. This ranged from helping out with school activities, to collecting and organizing books to be donated to children, and crafting dog beds to donate to the Cedar Valley Humane Society. I ended up not resigning up for FCCLA the following year due to my dealing with a difficult death in my family. However, since then I have gotten stronger and want to expand my community involvement. For that reason, I joined Student Council after the end of my junior year. As a representative, I help in school activities and decision-making. Though I’m a newer member, I’m excited to be a part of the Student Council. I have also recently joined the Science National Honor Society. I was able to join this club because of my accomplishments in science. I doubled up biology and chemistry my sophomore year, challenged myself by taking AP Chemistry my junior year, and am currently enrolled in the Pharmacology Technician program at Kirkwood as a senior. I am eager to see guest speakers and have already signed up for a couple of community service activities in this

When I was nine years old, I was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - or rather, the biggest opportunity a nine year old could be offered. After three years of playing little league, and one year of All-Stars, I was contacted and informed of a new travel ball organization starting up – the Portage Bulldawgs. I was shocked. Travel ball was the epitome of organized baseball up until the high school level. When my dad told me the Dawgs (that's what we referred to the team as) wanted me to try out, I was so ecstatic that I could barely finish eating my dinner.

When I first come here, it is tough for me to make friends because all of the students here come from different backgrounds. I managed to overcome that problem by engaging with the clubs’ activities and participating in volunteering programs. I improved my self-confidence by make a lot of friends from day to day. This gives me a good impression that being in a wonderful college like Bunker Hill Community College really helps students to build themselves by brushing up their potentials. By connecting with people every day and knowing others, we can brush up our communication skills as well as widen our knowledge. Based from these experiences, I promised to myself to help the new students adapting themselves in the new world attracting them to get involved with clubs, activities and volunteering

I was a Warrior connection leader for this year’s freshmen and I have some experience with working with freshmen. I could utilize my past experience. Next year, I will be ASB Executive Vice President and

I know that many students can identify to what I went through my first year and it would mean so much to me to reach out to those students afraid of what to expect and help them ease into this new chapter of their life. I will also offer an experience that many college students struggled with, which is learning to balance your overall health and well-being with a whole new load of responsibilities and opportunities. I will certainly never leave a student feeling alone because after attending orientation, every new student could say they already have one friend at Carolina: Kate

For most of my first year in college I felt lost and alone; I was not really involved with clubs or organizations until my second year at Miami Dade Honors College and I don’t want to have that same experience while attending FIU. I know that being part of the Honors College at FIU will benefit me because of the tight knit community, but it is always good to have friends and communicate with people from all backgrounds. After breaking through my shell, I have learned that I enjoy other people’s company.

Tulane’s adventurous culture has created a community that, I am sure, will be both beneficial for me and to which I could contribute much, as well. Tulane challenges its students to make a difference and is an experience like no other. At Tulane, I am confident that I will reach my greatest potential and influence events around me with the courageous and impactful

If someone asked me where I am going to be in ten years, this would be my answer. I will have a great, high-paying job, and beautiful wife and family, and a nice sports car parked in front of my lovely house. When I look into the future, I see myself being successful and happy. Even though I always pictured myself this way, I never worried too much about how I would get there. I feel the Suffolk University can lay the groundwork for making these dreams into reality.

Out of all my possible opportunities, I look toward my immediate future for my next goals to focus on and achieve. One of these goals I have set is to work toward the founding of Campbell University’s Formula SAE team. The Formula SAE team is an undergraduate and graduate motorsports team that competes with other schools with a racecar that the students build. Along with Formula SAE, I plan to join other professional engineering societies and organizations. Many of these organizations will be new to Campbell University, and that grants me an opportunity to not only be a founding member but I hope that I can either team lead different projects or be an officer of at least one of them. My hopes in starting or joining these organizations are that they will lead me toward professional connections through networking, and point me in the right direction to gain an internship in the field of

I am interested in serving as an EXPLORE OC because I would like the opportunity to meet, befriend, and serve as a resource for a small group of incoming freshman. My EXPLORE OCs were wonderful about this. They put their all into the position and made sure that we had a fun and memorable time through humorous ice-breakers, High School Musical karaoke sessions on the bus, awkward selfie postings on Group Me, and countless inside jokes. This, along with being welcoming, open-minded, and approachable are important aspects of this position. Additionally, I appreciate how one of my OCs in particular continued to check in with us from time to time, which I believe to be important to this position as well. As a past participant, I realize how much EXPLORE impacted my college experience. One month ago, if you had asked me what my plans for spring break were, I would have said staying on-campus, but now I’m going to Disney World with two others who were in my EXPLORE track. Most of all, I want EXPLORE participants to enter college with