College Admissions Essay: My Personal Goals In My Life

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I come from a diverse background and a middle class family. My father is a contractor and an electrical engineer. he lost his father when he was in his 20’s and started working at an early age, helped his younger brothers and sisters get quality education. He has been setting up an example for me and never fails to inspire me and taught me to never give up on life. Talking about my previous life it took a wild turn when I was in 4th grade and won gold medal in kangaroo mathematics competition and everything after that changed, my fellow mates started to look up to me and I become a role model and an example for everyone, jumping to my 10 grade when I was registered for my matriculation exam I get this great news that I have been selected for Youth exchange and study program it surely was a huge …show more content…
my dreams and my personal goals have now become larger and more ambitious than it was couple of years ago, Within the last year, I have had the chance to look deeper into myself and realize that I have so many talents and gifts to give others if I could only find the vehicle that would help me achieve my personal goals that allowed me once and for all to reach for my dream, to make myself complete and I am still working my way through it. When I was young my father use to buy me toys and I would try sell them. I use to listen to people and would fulfill their demand on my conditions that passion grew on and now that I am a high school student I know that the field that inspires me is business. My dream is to become the best businessman out there and to reduce the hatred people have in their hearts due to somebody’s religion, race and color, by working with the people from different nations I will be able to know there positive aspects and will shed a light to their

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