Statement Of Purpose: Step Program

My future academic goals for junior high is to promote as a CJSF member and to earn a GPA of a 3.5 or above. During my two years of Washington I want to remain in the AVID program. AVID has helped me in many different ways, for example it has showed me how to keep organized, take Cornell notes, be responsible, and how to strive for my goals. As a high school student I want to maintain a GPA of a 3.5 or higher as well. For my four years in high school, I would like to also be an AVID member. As I graduate from high school, I would like to graduate as an honor student. After high school, I would like to attend the Colorado State University. In the University of Colorado

The expectation that I hold for myself in life is success. I have many goals I wish to achieve in my future; however, the only obstacle in my way is hard work and myself. Of my many ambitions there are still many out of my reach, but of the ones achievable without too many years passing are the issues I’m considering and preparing for already. More than anything, I wish to graduate as Valedictorian of my class, be accepted into a college with a free-ride, and when I move to my new school for senior year I will still try to follow my dreams no matter the challenge. After high school, I plan to attend several challenging colleges some ideas are UT Martin or Vanderbilt. This education will allow me to live my life as I wish; with a high paying

I have learned many things from my experience with Strengths finder. I have learned that my strengths have given me a different sense of who I am. My strengths also helped me to find out what I am good at, and this will help me to improve myself as a person. I look back on myself and see that I am successful academically. I am able to write down assignments, and make things more organized to make my academic career a little easier. I have made game plans for what to do and when to do it as a result of Strengths finder. I have also managed to take on a big amount of responsibility by making sure that I’m doing everything, and doing it right on time. I can see my strengths represented through my vocation, which is not only to be a responsible

Attending Edmonds Community College for the last two years of my high school career was liberating. The Running Start program enabled me to take control over my education and I was eager to jump headfirst into the college environment. At the college I was able to learn at a quicker pace, relying less on others and more on my own abilities. My academic success became entirely dependent on my eagerness to learn and willingness to work hard. As a full-time Running Start student, I was able to hand-select courses that both challenged me and pertained to my academic interests. Unlike my high school, the community college offered a variety of course subjects, enabling me to cast a wider net into the academic pool.

This page is dedicated to the different projects that have better helped me become prepared for college and life after high school. Each entry within this page has a common theme: college. This is a collection of my college acceptance letters, scholarship awards, and my journey of becoming more prepared for college. I trace back my experience with college level tests, and what went into choosing the college that I most desired. This page is also dedicated to showing the steps that I have taken to prove that I am college bound.

As my senior year comes around, it has become more real to me that I have to take charge of my future. I deserve and need this scholarship just as I need oxygen to breathe. Being the first in my family to attend college or even have the idea in their head means I’m on my own to discover what to do to get into college and how to come up with the means. I

The implementation of this program will also help to strengthen students’ performance character, what Thomas Lickona and Matthew Davidson define “as the qualities necessary to achieve one’s potential in endeavors ranging

After the first semester of freshman year at Bentley University, students take a Career Development Seminar, which begins by taking a survey about strengths. Out of 34 strengths, the test lists the top 5 strengths for each person. Bentley students typically share the same type of strengths, such as Analytical, Focus, Maximizer, Strategic, and Woo. However, when I received my results, I felt like the elephant in the room. While most people received Competitive and Achiever as their top two strengths, mine came back as Relator and Empathy. As awkward as it was to explain to my teacher that my results were atypical, this moment lit a light bulb inside of my head. During my first semester, I struggled with my business courses, and none of the material seemed to pique my interest. At first, I wrote this off as a transition period and a time where I just needed to adjust to the college lifestyle while away from home and on my own. As time went on, this idea began to turn into serious doubt about whether the corporate business world was for me. The only problem was that Bentley is known for its business programs; in fact, out of 24 majors

With my large service background, I hadn't done any community service since this past summer with the STEP Program. Coincidently, earlier this semester I unintentionally enrolled into a community based service class. I then would have to select a nonprofit organization to do fifteen hours of service and later create a service project. Reviewing the organizations I had to choose between, I was not overly enthused as none of the organizations called out to me and I would have to do a lot of work with them. My choices narrowed because of my schedule, availability, locations, and other various conditions. Having to determine which service cause was the lesser of the two evils based off of my personal interests. I found myself choosing to work with

College Credit Plus would afford me an opportunity that is almost inconceivable. Being allowed to work towards your goals and future at this juncture will be instrumental in my future success. After learning about this program, I reconsidered my future plans and realized that not pursuing higher education would be choosing to ignore my potential. Transitioning from high school to college is a challenge for most students, however with this program, The Academy will introduce me to the college life in a manner where I won’t get distracted during my Freshman year of college and put my education in jeopardy. Although this program will require change and effort in order to get the most out of my experience with College Credit Plus and to become an asset to The Ohio State University, it will be well worth it to reach greatness.

Our college-counseling program is designed to help students explore their strengths, talents, abilities and interests, then identify the right colleges and universities that best match student’s choice and abilities, and, ultimately, gain admission to the colleges and universities that best suit their ambitions and aspirations. Toward this end, Pioneer Academy’s experienced team of college counselors works closely with both students and parents in the college panning, selection, application, and admission process.

Strength-based advising is an approach used to identify strengths that students have, and apply those strength to formulate short and long-term college and career goals. Strength-based advising allows the student to focus more on their skills and abilities that can help them progress, rather than dwell on past weaknesses that they may have encountered. This advising approach is a new adaptation to higher education advising and is similar to strength-based approaches used in social work, business, and psychology. (Schreiner & Anderson, 2005)

Being more than two years in the United States has never stopped giving me challenges on the way I undertook to achieve my academic dream. With my efforts alone, I acknowledged that it cannot afford to lead me to my dream college, due to the shortage of time that I got acquainted with the new educational system. Fortunately, my friend recommended to me a program that assists and prepares students in the journey of approaching to colleges, Reality Changers.

Post-secondary and graduate educations are attainable goals with selected people experiencing the barrier of affordability. Certain individuals come from affluent families and money is not an obstacle to higher education. Others have opportunities to secure funds due to athletic or academic excellence with grants and scholarships. For those who don’t fit in those two categories, they still have the opportunity to go to college with the help of financial aid. If the desire is present, the effort is easy.

My strengths include good study habits, my attitude toward educators, good family emotional support, career closure, and sense of financial security. By having good study habits I will be able to receive good grades on assignments and tests. Having a good attitude toward educators, I will be more open minded about their teaching styles, making it easier for me to learn. Having good emotional support from my family and a great sense of financial security will help me get through college and advance in life because they will support the decisions I make. Most importantly I have known what I have wanted to do with my life since I have been fifteen. I also have many weaknesses that I need to work on to help me through college. These would include verbal and writing confidence, abstract thinking, and tolerating others opinions. I need to work on my confidence in speaking and writing, by improving my confidence I will have better written papers which will help me get good grades in class. By improving my speaking confidence I will be able to get a better job or a better chance at a job by being confident in an interview. Being more open minded and willing to see more than what has just been given to me, I will be able to expand my knowledge and understand topics better through abstract thinking. Tolerating other people’s opinions or being more understanding of them, I will not only do better