College Admissions Essay: The Future Before Me

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The Future Before Me As you may have known, college is a journey that one will take to accomplish the goal that the future had set upon them. I want to go to a college after graduating from high school. Since for me, the collage that I planned to go to are Harvard University, Yale University, or Stanford University. I want to go to one of these universities to learn about laws. There were many choices of what I wanted to be when I grew up. Through as I was thinking, over a period of time, I had considered that I wanted to become a lawyer with The Doctor of Juridical Science or Doctor of Laws degree when I grow up. The career that I had chosen made me think of what the future has for me. Was it money? To provide for family? To survive in

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