Knock Scholarship Essay

I think I should be offered the KISD Education Foundation scholarship opportunity due to my strong commitment to the fine arts and my desire to preserve them from the likes of public schools' budget cuts. The preservation of the future fine arts is a topic that is one of the most passionate for me to speak on due to my yearning to continue to spread its gift to new generation of students. Schools around the country continually attempt at cutting fine arts to balance school budgets, but this cannot be allowed to happen. The fine arts provide a creative medium of expression and passion for high students across the country, and, by providing me this scholarship opportunity, Killeen ISD will also have taken their own step at preventing these forms of expression from vanishing from our public-school system.

As a high achieving and dedicated student of Kilcoy State High School, I feel that I am worthy of being awarded an academic scholarship for 2017-2018. To address the basic criteria given, I am currently enrolled in year 10 and I intend to complete a QCE over 2017 & 2018. My school attendance has been excellent over the past 5 ½ semesters (two days absent total - approximately 99.5% attendance). I have consistently achieved A’s in all of my subjects over that period with the exception of one B in Year 8 HPE. These achievements can be attributed to my effort, persistence, commitment and dedication toward my schoolwork, both in class and at home.

In my spring 2017 semester Kean awarded me the Freshman Trustee Scholarship for exceptional high school scholastic achievements, such as acquiring a 3.71 unweighted GPA and scoring 27 on the ACT. Whilst having such strong potential for collegiate success, there is a significant demonstrated financial gap in my parents' savings, where I must allocate my job earnings, and the cost for me to independently pursue a college education. Although my brother is diagnosed with severe autism and ADHD, and will remain almost absolutely financially dependent on my parents for his entire life, my source of financial need stems from being the eldest of five. In two years 3/4 of my younger quadruplet siblings, who are juniors in high school, and I will all

The fourth value enumerated in the Oregon State Police Officers Association’s mission is “to foster and maintain, among members of the Association, the highest standards of professionalism and devotion to duty.” A devotion to duty has become more to me than actively perform one’s responsibilities. What I believe has molded me into the young man that I am today is that I have set a precedent of service in my life so great that I want my entire to be devoted to it. Service has become the act that benefits and advances all people with the talents that I have been granted and in the ways I am trained to do, and I am in the process of dedicating my life to this continual form of duty.

“Congratulations, you have been accepted to Rutgers University-New Brunswick.” These words were, to me, the words of accomplishment and pride. However, these were not the only words Rutgers University wrote to me. In the Fall of 2015, I was an incoming senior at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. Excited about the years ahead, I applied to many schools throughout the United States. I applied to two schools in Alabama, two schools in Indiana, two schools in New York, and only one in New Jersey-Rutgers. My initial goal was to be my own person and go to a University that no one in my family had attended. In fact, my goal was to attend Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. This was a dream because my closest grandfather had planned to go there to study engineering. Being a bright student, he was accepted with a scholarship. Getting ready to leave to form a new beginning and only a few days before graduation, his father passed away. Unable to go from New Jersey to Indiana knowing that his family needed him, he decided to stay home and run the family tile business. Years later when my twin brother and I were born, he was God’s blessing to us. Growing up without a father, he stepped in to fill the gap. As

I have always loved art so much. When I was younger I remember I always drew with my mother on our brown, wooden table surrounded by velvet green couches on our white carpet. It's not the same now that mama and my dad are divorced, but now my mama’s in jail for drunk driving and she was a heavy smoker.. I miss her to the moon and back . It's now January and she’s been in jail for three months now, only twenty-one months more to go.

Coming into UNF in fall of 2017 I will be a transfer student. The choice to transfer wasn’t hard at all. I was born and raised in Jacksonville and miss home terribly. After not being happy at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida I knew I needed to move back home to Jacksonville and finish up my degree at the best school in Jacksonville, which happens to have a good exercise science program. I chose to transfer UNF’s Exercise Science program because I miss home, but also because I have heard great things about the program from former and current students.

During the year of 2014 there were an estimated 112,600 architects employed and approximately 20% were self-employed. Architects have a high competition for jobs and job positions are estimated to increase seven percent each year (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). Degrees for this field of study can be found at many colleges including Kansas State University. Kansas State is a great college that is full of opportunities for scholarships and has a wide variety of clubs and degrees.

In college, I plan on taking the courses needed to qualify for admission into medical school. My number one goal is to continue making all As in my college courses. I also plan on being an active member in many clubs and taking advantage of community service opportunities. After finishing my bachelor degree, I plan on attending medical school, and from there I hope to become a psychiatrist. Hopefully, I will be able to obtain a job working for the VA where I can help provide care for veterans. My main goal from then on out would be to provide the best care possible for my patients.

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.

In order to meet my expected academic expenses I will be using a combination of personal savings from multiple jobs and scholarships. During the portion of the year I am at Gonzaga University I am employed at Jundt Art Museum, an on campus work study position. Throughout the year I use the money I earn to pay for textbooks, school supplies, and monthly tuition bills. In addition, I save my extra earnings for future expenses as I anticipate my sophomore year of college will be more costly. During the summer and other school breaks I am employed at Bobs Chowder Bar, a local restaurant. As well as working throughout the year I also plan to apply for numerous scholarships. Currently, I am fortunate enough to be a recipient of Washington State’s

Being accepted to Auburn University is the greatest remarkable event that has happened to me in the past few months. There is something drawing myself to attend Auburn University and I remain unable to decipher it. I consider myself a worthy candidate for a scholarship as I have abundant leadership skills and I want to become an improved person. I reside in Georgia and that makes me an out-of-state resident and that will increase my tuition; I do not need this situation to stop me from going to my dream school. I love this school to the extent that I just did not bother about all the other schools that I have applied in since I already acquired acceptance in the one school I am interested in attending. Also, I have always liked the idea of

I am a person with a need to be great. A person who leads others in humor and humility, sensitivity and strength. I may fall, but I always rise again and when I succeed, I always reach back to help another person forward. Judging from my current high school career, I embody the core values that Howard holds so profoundly.

Growing as a girl with a passion to impart my community positively and the world at large, I sought for a profession that is aimed towards my inner desire to best assist individuals in living comfortably, help individuals who are at risk and less capable of assisting themselves, to best reach this self actualization and fulfillment. In support my father got me my fist professional book “where there is no doctor”. With the high ranking of medicine and the value life showed to be, I believed medicine was that one profession that could save as well as impart individuals in their various societies and areas of priority ‘health’. Therefore I aspired to study medicine, become the life changing doctor, and assist as many as I can. Then came the tertiary institution where I obtained the opportunity to study public health, that satisfaction was not gained, I tried to place my mind in it to be able to divert my goals towards the area of study which didn’t prove effective. I had it in mind to change college due to a deficiency until a course mate mentioned Social work, I was totally ignorant of the course and all it entailed but felt this drive to try it, without the understanding of the course my first semester seemed weak, but as soon as orientation was properly delivered by practicing professionals and senior colleagues, I got the grasp of what social is and felt complete as every plan I had down for now and the future correlated with this profession.

My mom always told me life was about making tough choices, and throughout my life I’ve had to make them. It has been difficult at times to make it my priority but I have had to learn how to do that. Whenever she would tell me this though, I always thought it would be making the tough decision between right and wrong, not between two things I love. Over the summer I got the opportunity to attend a college class at NYU under a partial scholarship. The class I was going to be taking would give me a taste of the kind of classes I would be taking if I went into the international relations field, which is what I plan on studying in college. I was so excited when I got the letter in the mail, until I read the date, July 30th through August 5th. NYU class ran exactly through the week of honestly one of my favorite events of the year, Camp Able.