College Admissions Essay: A Career In My Education Career

What is my next step after college? Throughout my education career, my primary goal was to get into college. Now that I am at Lehigh University, what is my next step? Many children constantly ask themselves, “What should I be when I grow up?” I never had an answer for that until I took Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics and Macroeconomics in high school. Both classes sparked my interest in the idea of numbers and business. The idea of how statistics and data leads to determining how the economy would react during a time of recession in the business cycle fascinated me. Both classes allowed me to confirm that I belong in the business world because I would be able to use my interest in both math and economics to my career. As I applied for colleges, I wondered what I should major in? I know I belong in …show more content…
Lehigh will help me because the business program is set up to allow me to find the perfect major and have knowledge of many areas in the business field, the resources Lehigh has to offer and the great alumni network, I know it can guide me to my Accounting career.
Before my junior and senior year in high school I would constantly change my choice of career. I watched many Hong Kong television and dramas. When a show talks about lawyers, I want to be a lawyer, but when it talks about police officers, I want to be a police officer. Therefore, I never really had a solid idea of what career I want to be. I did not have a clue of what I want to do for the rest of my life until AP Statistics. AP Statistics opened my eyes to ideas of data and numbers. I learned that I can use my favorite subject, math, to a career where I can test and determine the probability of something or the correlation between two completely different subjects. From that point, the fog for my career path began to clear. What truly sparked my interest in the business field was AP Macroeconomics. When I