Most immigrant students are commonly doubted by many people, always told that we are not capable of success. When I moved to America from Philippines, everything was new to me, and I felt very alienated. The hardest part of moving to a different country was the language. Due to language barriers, no one really took me seriously causing my colleagues to doubt me. I was put into that stereotype where I was made to seem I was incompetent. My personal experience with this stereotype made me work harder to prove everyone wrong. It made me change my attitude towards academics and activities such as sports and honor programs. Proving false the society that stereotyped people in this way allowed me to attain a great deal of accomplishments. All the
