My Admission To College

Ever since I was a young child, my parents always told me to try my best in school, they always told me this for the reason that they never had the opportunity to have a good job because they never finished school. This event is shaping me to care a lot regarding my education. In addition to that, another event that has shaped me to become the person I am today is that since my parents don’t have good paying jobs they have to work hard to take care of me and my siblings this event has caused me to become a hard working person and to seize all opportunities to live a good life because I don’t want to struggle like my parents.

I believe that I deserve to be selected for the Diboll High School Alumni Association Scholarship because I am a dedicated student who takes every opportunity to further myself academically and will put the scholarship to great use. Not only do I hold myself to high academic standards, I constantly make an effort in giving back to my community.

First of all, Congratulations on your acceptance to the Honors College!! Undoubtedly, the Honors College is an experience you would never forget, either because you really liked it or because you had to study day and night to achieve your goals. My best advice: make friends. In my opinion, this is an experience that you cannot do alone. Without friends, professors and people that you could rely on this two years could turn out to be very hard, plus your friends here will turn out to be like your family. Second, as a new student you are going to start hearing about all the organizations and clubs you could be a part of, however always remember that quality is better than quantity. Third, try to do your best in every class you take… hard work

I’ve spent my whole life trying to please my parents, praying I don’t disappoint them. They came to this country to have a better life for their children and I couldn’t let their hard work and suffering go to waste. Only my mom had gone to college but despite that, she had never actually worked here in the U.S. because of her lack of knowledge on the English language. With my dad being the only one working, out of town, three hours away at that, earning only minimum wage, my family and I were limited to the very essentials. When I got to middle school everything started to take a turn downhill. I was starting to need more money, whether it was for school supplies or for clothes and I felt horrible asking my dad for more.

In the 19th century someone quoted that, “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” Whoever this person was; He or she was very wise. In 2013, I was going to college for culinary, but decided that it was not for me. Finishing my second quarter, my dad asks me if I wanted to go work with him in North Dakota. Without second guessing it, I told him “Yes.” I had not lived with my dad in six years. Do not get me wrong, he came around once in a while whenever he could, but I didn’t know my dad very well. Moving to North Dakota changed the way I looked at life and has helped guide me to learn my true worth.

During my time at Junior High i’ve always had things come so easy to me, and I loved it. I would get decent grades without having to study for the tests, the homework was straightforward, and the teachers loved me. Being the average know-it-all child I was, I thought this would’ve carried out into high school. I spent my freshman year struggling because I didn’t quite understand that yet. It wasn’t until my second semester of sophomore year I finally made a change, and it showed a considerable amount. I kept the ambition up throughout my junior year, received a job as a CNA, and stayed busy managing wrestling.

I am in an anomalous situation. I am an immigrant from Venezuela, have been living in the States for 10 years as of September, and am not yet considered a permanent citizen. This has of course circumscribed my options, but it has widened my perspective and encouraged my engagement in academic activities to benefit the rigor of my academic profile. In the ongoing process of striving to overcome my own limitations and deficits, I have grown to value assiduity and diligence. College applications have surfaced, and I am definitely limited. Although, I grateful to have opportunities to be able to attend an institution of higher education and hopeful to fulfill my potential.

Being accepted to college is one thing, but it’s another thing to stay and finish graduating from college. The plethora of reasons why a student would withdraw from attending college is devastating not only to the student, but to the family members who believed you can be the first to graduate from college. Those dreams and aspirations the student had will take a longer time to fulfill, yet that student is still ambitious and determined to make those dreams come true. This scholarship can help me, financially, to be self-assured that I will be a college graduate. I’m putting every determination that I have to be: a college graduate, a lawyer, an actor, and an environmentalist. My dreams and aspirations are to give back to every underrepresented

The gravity of my decision to become the first person in my family to apply to college was not lost on me. One prominent fact, I faced was my lack of preparation for college level work. My education prepared me for tradesmen level work, not higher education. The basic skills of effective study habits, note taking abilities, and test taking strategies were not developed by the time I completed high school. Yet, I held a deep belief that I could do anything if given the opportunity. That was one skill set that my parents helped foster within me as a young person. Consequently, I was prepared to face and solve the forthcoming challenges. During my time at Purdue University, I developed a learning system to aid me to be successful. This system has continually adapted and strengthened throughout my career.

As a child, one of the most difficult parts about growing up was accepting the fact that I did not have the same lifestyle as other students. I was raised in the hands of two lovely parents, who came to the United States as Immigrants hoping for a better life. Things were never easy in our household, and most of the time my parents had to work double jobs in order to keep a roof over our heads. Most children at the age of five didn’t stress about their homework assignments, because they knew that their parents would help them when they needed it. I, on the other hand, had to go home knowing that my parents wouldn’t have the faintest idea what my assignment said. To this day, I still remember having to translate for my parents, and them telling me that everything will work out in the end.

I believe makes me standout as a strong candidate for admissions to the University of California. I am not going to say the cliche things every applicant says. Yes, I do believe University of California is a fit for me but this University is more than that. I not only believe but I know that will be enlightened in a new way of learning about the world by wise professionals that been through it all before, I know I will receive the most vigorous education that will not only challenge me but help me to be able to run high speed through obstacles that will come in life . But most importantly, I most definitely know, that after I develop enough knowledge that I hope to learn at this institution, it shall lead me to the red carpet of my career without

Both of my parents work for six days a week with twelve-hour shifts. I started to help out with the business during middle school, and gradually gained more responsibilities when in high school. Both of my parents are uneducated, my father never finish high school and my mother never passed grade school. When it comes to education, my mother heavily emphasizes education as oppose to my father, who shrugged off my report cards, or academic achievement. With this in mind, both of my parents are working long hours in an effort to send me to college. As a consequence their effort motivates me to take school work seriously to achieve their dreams of aspiration. Overtime, I developed strict discipline toward education and feeling of sincerity for parents. Values that is becoming noticeably absent in our

Life is the biggest test a person can ever take. Every single decision made determines every single outcome that comes afterwards. Since all of us are different, we all make different decisions, which then takes us down different paths. This is what forms us into who we are and how we find ourselves. As a youth, one of the biggest test I have faced and continue to face has been getting through high school. The experiences I’ve encountered in high school up until college has dramatically changed me as a person, physically, mentally and with my level of maturity. Even though I'm still in the process of growing and finding myself, high school has been a huge building block to becoming the person desire to be. My teacher once shared a quote that stated, “in school you're taught a lesson and given a test, but in life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

When I started high school, my parents shared with me how they had arrived in Texas with no money, family, or the ability to speak English. They started their lives in America by balancing being full-time students and working full-time jobs to provide for our family. Through my childhood, I witnessed my parents fight to achieve success and was impacted by the humility and dedication that they displayed in all aspects of their daily routines and relationships. Their hard work and effort were rewarded over time. From an early age, I aspired to be like them and used this as my motivation to dedicate myself to school, church, band, and sports—anything and everything I participated in. They taught me the importance of hard working role models and I realized that I wanted to be the kind of person others look up to. I worked hard each day in my activities so that, just like them, I could be a great role model to my brother, my sister, and my

Growing up, I was born to a working lower-class family, where my parents did their best to make end meets. My parents struggle to enroll us in school by working any jobs they could find. Both of my parents had to hold multiple jobs, whether it was