College Admissions Essay: Growing Up In High School

Growing up is internationally known as one of the hardest periods in a person’s lifetime. Everything’s changing, the people you’ve known all your life are no longer acting like themselves, changing schools can be very difficult, and friends are lost. However, growing up is especially difficult when families relocate right after their child started high school. When my family moved from Midland, Texas to Houston, Texas, my entire world was flipped upside down and I thought I had lost a once in a lifetime opportunity..
My father was always talking about how much he wanted to live in Houston. His comments came so often that I was used to ignoring them and brushing them to the side. However, after I started my freshman year of high school, his comments began to change from simply wanting to live there to how we were prepared to …show more content…
I was upset at losing that opportunity when we moved to Houston. I was also scared to start at a huge, two story high school when I had come from a high school that was only one hallway. When faced with the high school I would be going to, I broke down, and confessed to my mother how scared I was at the thought of having to go there. She was also upset that I would be losing my chance to gain college credits early on in a dual credit school. In response, we both started searching for any local dual-credit high schools like the one I had attended. My mother ended up stumbling across an ad for one in the local paper. It advertised a high school that would be starting its first year at the local community college. When we went to the meeting they were having the next week, we learned that it would be almost the exact same thing that my first high school was. We immediately submitted my application and hoped the school would gian enough students to be able to