Dream School Research Paper

Spelman College was never my “dream school” or one of the schools I planned on attending. After getting rejected from my top two schools, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I began to lose all hope. I became very lost, I didn’t know where I was going to school because I wasn’t really interested in any other schools. My friend Michael, who was planning to attend Morehouse College, was the one who motivated me to apply to Spelman. At first I was very hesitant about applying, but I decided to apply just so that I would have a backup plan, in case I didn’t get accepted into my dream schools. Luckily after touring Spelman, I knew that Spelman was the right place for me, and all hope was regained. While touring …show more content…
I plan to become a medical researcher and hopefully find cures for diseases that plague mankind. Spelman will assist me with this long term goal through internships, and also through their strong alumnae. I am aware that a small percentage of people who hold an occupation within the scientific field are women, and an even smaller percentage of these women are black. This not only means that I must be efficient in my field of study, but also twice as efficient as others to be successful. Although this barrier exists within the scientific world, I aim to promote diversity by bringing to light issues that are often unrepresented in scientific communities. Ruth Hubbard stated in “Fact Making and Feminism”, “Until the 1960s, youngsters mainly from the upper-middle and upper classes, most of them male and white, had access to that kind of education. Since, then more white women and people of color (both women and men) have been able to gain access, but the class origins of scientists have not changed appreciably.” This implies that there’s a lot of work that needs to be done with science-related careers, in terms of making these jobs more accessible to all