Miramar High School Application Essay

My whole life I have been invested in doing what I love, focusing on my true passions, as well as finding new ones. I have been very involved in my high school, and have been lucky enough to be a part of multiple clubs and activities. Without these activities, my high school experience and life would be a lot different. I have been an active drama club member, a part of ‘Bottlecappers,’ a club advocating anti-drug, alcohol, and bullying to younger students in my district, and many other community service opportunities. I am lucky to have the opportunity to be in these activities, as they have shaped me to be the young adult I am today.

Montclair State University, home of the Red Hawks has always been a college that has interested me. As a kid, I often would visit the beautiful campus to watch baseball games at the Yogi Berra Stadium located inside. I have always been a fan of schools with big campuses. The campus is not the only thing that caught my interest, after doing some research I found out that Montclair State has a one of the best business programs in the area. The best part is I only about fifth-teen minutes away.

Everyone on the face of the earth is born/blessed with a special gift or two , when this gift is used to its use the full potential it becomes an ultralight beam in the world. My gift, its the gift of knowing people, my gift is the gift of being able to make everyone around me happier and enable everyone to have a better day.

The personal statement is used by the scholarship committee and/or donor to get to know you better. Your personal statement should outline your academic and career goals, both current and future. You should also explain how this award will assist you in achieving these goals both financially and academically. (At least 50 words minimum, no set maximum.)

A majority of my family’s extreme financial hardships ended before I entered middle school. I often thought that I’d matured and learned a lot since then, that I no longer had that chip on my shoulder. Before reading Laurel Johnson Black’s chapter, “Stupid Rich Bastards”, I figured I would remember slurs and taunts thrown at me as a child, or the glares of those who thought they were better than me. However, as I read her words, I found myself remembering more of what being poor meant to me, not to other people. Not only did I relate to her memories, but also her feelings toward college, and where she belonged.

In like words to Albert Einstein, John Dewey once stated “education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” An immensely powerful blessing found in attending an international school has been becoming a person who thrives and enjoys learning amongst a seemingly endless multitude of cultures. The opportunity to essentially become immersed in different cultures gave me a personal conviction to go out and serve underserved regions of the world. Through my missions and travels, I have learned that how we face both diversity and adversity define who I am. The value of an education is determined by the one who receives it and what he or she chooses to do with it.

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.

Without wading into the thicket of details, it came to be forces beyond anyone’s control that led to the financial emergency that left my father and stepmother with essentially no source of income, the very same time they took on the added expenses of welcoming the birth of my baby brother. I had no idea about the financial situation until my father, who tried to protect me, was unable to pay an installment of my tuition. Though the situation was eventually resolved, this sudden concern for whether I would be able to afford to continue my schooling severely affected my concentration, further hampering my

My five family members and I were expected to survive on my mother’s paycheck of $2,000 per month. I did not wish to put extra stress on my parents, so I never complained about our lack of money. Instead, I directed my attention to my studies because this affliction reminded me that I needed to stay focused on my future goals. I refused to be a prisoner of a depressed state, so I continued to strive for my academic goals and excel in

They moved to a different country with the sole purpose of allowing my brother and I to have the lives that they never could. Both my mother and father have had to shoulder enormous amounts of responsibility in the past, and now they have the addition of owning a business, having children, and my physically disabled grandmother to worry about. With the addition of your scholarship, I’ll be able to lighten a burden on not only my life but also my parents’. I’ll be able to make a contribution to their existence as they have done so many times for my

While working at Ernst & Young (EY) in tax services, I have come to know and respect the value of a Master of Business Taxation (MBT) degree from the University of Southern California Leventhal School of Accounting. The Leventhal School is an innovator in accounting education; a Leventhal degree would allow me to enhance and strengthen my tax education and ultimately apply this knowledge in practice. These opportunities would allow me to become the kind of innovative and contributing accountant I aspire to be.

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.

At the time I was applying to grad school, I knew only vaguely what I wanted and I had nearly made up my mind to attend the University of Washington in Seattle. But the scholarship offer from Texas A&M University and the realization that the Indian government does not recognize one-year graduate degrees (as is the case with University of Washington) made me reconsider my decision. Ultimately, I chose to attend A&M for my graduate studies in Construction Management, still unaware of the full ramifications of my decision.

"Make sure you wear your seatbelt in the taxi!" My mother's warning echoed in my mind as I clutched the seat, hoping to reach my destination alive and minimally traumatized by the experience. It was almost midnight as the taxi sped through the nearly deserted streets of Seoul, breaking traffic laws and making its way north toward my new home. In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined what lay in store for me.

Since my time at Shady Grove Elementary School, I counted the days until I would be headed to college; my family did as well. I always hated school and thought of college as a place where I could do whatever I wanted with no one to answer to. My family saw college as a goal they never even had the luxury of considering. No one in my family ever had the privilege of having a degree and as a result had to work much harder than most people to have just barely have all of their bills paid and still be able to put food on the table. For me to be able to attend college and build a stable future for myself shows how much my family has progressed. They tell me all the time how good it feels to know that I will probably never have to lead a life as stressful as all of them did. It wasn’t until August 8, 2015 that I truly understood exactly how much hardship my family faced and just how fortunate I have been.