Personal statement (SAP Appeal)
During my time here at CSN I’ve had a few extenuating circumstances arise while in school which took away from my performance in my classes causing me to either fail or withdraw out of courses and eventually be placed on SAP suspension. My mother was a single parent for a number of years and once I graduated from High School she asked of me to assist with bills in the home since I still resided with her, so I began working for Moneytree which to my surprise was very time demanding and at the time I was without reliable transportation and a manager who was not very flexible with my school schedule. Then in 2010 my family and I became homeless for some time due to the recession which caused my sister to lose her job in 2008, and then my mother in 2010. This left me as the sole provider for my family since I was the only one working full-time with the ability to work additional hours if needed due to the demand of my employer at the time, and my position within the company. Then in 2013 my father who resided in Illinois was diagnosed with Bladder cancer which led to me traveling to
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My mother and sister we’re able to find gainful employment and no longer rely on me financially. Of course with my father’s passing I no longer have to travel back and forth. And I’m able to focus on my course work. I’m still employed with my same employer. Now, I have a more understanding upper management team who works with my school schedule and allows me to work part-time. I was also diagnose with attention deficit disorder and I now work with the DRC here at CSN to ensure I have all the accommodations I need to succeed here at CSN. I also utilize the resources here on campus such as the SRC (Science resource center) and the smart think tutoring services on canvas. I’ve also retaken courses to rehabilitate my GPA to prove that I do want to be successful here at
Besides graduating from college, being accepted into the Counseling program at NOVA Southeastern University was the greatest day of my life. I was on my way to a much greater success by working on my Master. Paying for college out of pocket was a struggle, but I understand that success comes with great sacrifices. However, I wouldn’t really call paying out of pocket for school a sacrifice, but rather an investment in my future and my family. My first semester went marvelous. I was motivated and enthusiastic about the courses. I must admit graduate school is much harder than I imagine, but I manage to make time for studying and ended making A’s in both of my classes, which I didn’t expect less than that. When the summer semester I arrived, I was as excited and motivated as my very first semester, aiming to make nothing less than an A grades. However, unexpectedly my world seemed to have turned upside down in a matter of time. My mother and I decided to take a week to go
In 1986, I dropped out of college to relocate to Florida where I worked a couple years, got married and had 2 boys. I formed Oceanview Landscape & Irrigation where I was the owner/operator and designer of Landscape Installations. This business served its purposed by allowing me to work around the family and contribute to our finances. I sold that business and unfortunately my marriage came to an end. I re-entered the corporate world for a previous supervisor and had the opportunity of a lifetime by working with some amazing professionals on the design for the restoration of the Everglades. Unfortunately political cutbacks affected my employment. I returned back to school for
With this letter to you, I urge you to please hear me out and help me. I do not have the money to attend UCONN because of my family’s financial situation. The aid I received was a blessing and gave me the opportunity to follow my dreams and make my parents proud. It was the main driving factor for me going to UCONN as I pay for school myself. I had worked all summer and had planned to take whatever the difference was once financial aid was factored in and pay for it with my hard earned money, but now I will not be able to do that because of a miscommunication with my father and my mental illness. If I am granted financial aid, I will do whatever it takes to overcome
My parents filed for divorce after 18 years of marriage. In addition to the expense of my parents’ divorce, there was a change in my family’s financial status. The pressure to get into an RN program was on high. I tried nursing programs at City Tech, at York, at Adelphi, and at LIU. It wasn’t my time for any of those schools. I took two semesters off, working full-time to help my mom
I started substitute teaching at various elementary, middle and high schools in the Jacksonville area. In October of 2010, I obtained full time employment at Youth Crisis Center as a Youth Care Specialist. My role was to assist young adults in the foster care system. While at Youth Crisis Center, I was acknowledged for my dedication and excellence in the work place and was promoted to team lead. In March 2011, I was laid off and regained employment at the Mental Health Resource Center, as a Family Services Counselor (FSC). As I held this position, I worked with families through the foster care system who had experienced past trauma of abuse, abandonment or neglect. I held a case load of 15-25 families as I coordinated services to ensure each of their need were met. The types of services provided included medical, dental, educational, therapeutic, parenting, mental health and substance abuse to name a few. Likewise, I prepared reports on a weekly basis to be submitted to the courts regarding the families progress or lack thereof. With all intent to reunify families there were instances that reunification was not deemed to be in the child(s) best interest. In such cases as these it was also my responsibility to testify in open court advocating for other permanency options for the child. I found my position as a FSC to be both challenging and rewarding at the same time. I remember working with a family whose
After Graduation in 2011 I was unable to find a job for several months dues to both the economy, and living in a rural area without reliable transportation. In 2013 Converge diagnostic was sold to quest, and relocated outside a reasonable commute distance. I could live off my emergency funds, until I was offered a position as a pathology tech at Lahey clinic and medical center.
My decision to go back to school in the fall of 2012 was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. I’m a stay at home mom of 4 boys with 2 of them being special needs. My oldest was born with a rare genetic condition called hereditary spastic paraplegia and my youngest son was born with a rare condition called Dravet Syndrome that requires 24/7 care. I was at a point in my life where I had lost my identity of who I was and I wanted to be me again. I made that important decision to go back to school for myself with the fear of how I was going to do it, but I knew that it was right. It took me 3 years to complete my AS but with the support of my husband and kids I was able to receive my degree. I worked hard and was able to juggle being
I grew up on a farm about 3 hours north of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul. I grew up as the oldest of 9 children, making our house a very busy place. It is there that I attended school at Menahga Public Schools, about 15 miles from our home. I graduated with about 45 students in 2014. I attended Minnesota State Community and Technical College as a Post-Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO) student for my Junior and Senior Year, attaining an Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts, also in May of 2014. In the Fall of 2014, I attended the University of North Dakota (UND), looking to attain my Bachelors of Science. I attended UND for three years, graduating this spring with my Bachelors of Science. During my life I have held a variety of jobs, ranging from farmhand to
During my senior year in 2012, I decided to applied to universities however; my parents were not able to help me out financially. Since the Dream Act was not available until January 2013, I decided to attend a community college. I decided to enroll at Santa Monica College and then transfer to a university as a Physical Anthropology major. I took enough classes to be a full time student and still be able to help my parents around the house. My plan was to stay at Santa Monica College for 3 years and then apply for transfer; however, two of my most dear and closest family members became ill. My uncle, who has always believed that I could achieve great things in life, who gives the best advises in the world, and who taught me how to play the clarinet
It was in April 2011, I was working only 20-30 hours a week, due to shortage of work. It was a struggle for my family; my wife, which was pregnant with our second child, and my daughter, at the time was only 2. I was doing odd jobs whenever I wasn’t able to work my normal job. This still seemed to not be enough for my family and me to really live on. Work continued to slow down, and our bills seemed to speed up. As usual, I was determined one way or another, to turn my position around and provide for my family.
My mom is a food service worker and my dad was a christmas tree farmer. Although we never had a lot of money, we made things work. We never went on any vacations and I wasn’t able to play sports because they cost too much, but that was okay because we were together and happy. Now that my dad is no longer here to support us, we have been struggling. The mortgage is always behind, something always seems to be shut off in our house as a result of not being able to pay the bills, and the pantry isn’t as full as it used to be. Financial issues has also been affecting my education. As I’m applying to colleges, I find myself limited in the number of schools I can apply to because not all colleges have fee waivers I can’t afford to pay several fees to apply to as many colleges as I’d would like to. I’ve also had hesitation in going to college just because of the cost of it. My goal in life is to become a doctor, which, normally takes around eight years. Eight years of college is not cheap, and the idea of having to pay thousands of dollars has scared
in the early spring when temperatures in the day are above freezing workers on maple farms begin producing syrup. They use drills to make slightly upward facing holes into the tree on the Southside usually half an inch in diameter and two inches deep called taps where sap can be seen dripping. A spell is then inserted into the tap which drips into hanging buckets. Once the buckets are full they are transported into a large pot inside of a sugar shack. In the sugar shack the sap is heated to its boiling point until about sixty-six percent of the water is removed. if the syrup starts to bubble to high a stick of butter can be lightly rubbed on the inside around the top of the pot to avoid overflow. After heating while the syrup is still hot
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Growing up in a country where educational preferences were given to boys, my father went against the society norms and encouraged me to get higher education. Along with his guidance and my thirst for knowledge I was accepted in engineering program. I was happily pursuing my degree, when suddenly all this came to halt; my father was seriously ill. He wanted me to get married before he leaves this world. Few weeks later, I met my husband, who at the time was visiting Pakistan for his cousin’s wedding and within months I was married. I came to United States with a hope of better future and dreams of finishing my education, but was unable to do so as I was expecting our first child and had no one to help us with the baby. I dedicated myself to raise our daughter, but deep down that feeling of emptiness lingered. Life kept moving forward, we moved a few times, gradually I started to adapt to being a stay home mother of two beautiful girls. Numerous times I brought home admission forms from CCBC but started to doubt myself if I was going to be able to do restart after such a big gap? I started volunteering at my daughter’s school and was soon hired as a teacher’s helper to assist with children with special needs. While working at school, I was again in an environment that reminded and encouraged me to fulfill my lost dreams. In 2012, I enrolled at CCBC with no career path in mind: I just wanted start again! Once I started I never looked back and I will continue to thrive.