Full Ride Scholarship Essay

“ If you don’t get a full ride scholarship you cannot go to the college of your choice.” My mother has been telling me that since I was in middle school. I would think to myself how hard can it be to get a full ride. Now I’m a senior in high school with no full ride scholarship even though throughout high school I kept my grades up and I even played basketball in hope of a scout would come to my small charter school and discover my talent but that didn’t happen either. So here I am, a senior wondering how am I going to afford college. Growing up I was raised in a single parent household. My mother worked two jobs just to pay the bills and provide for my three siblings and I. After paying the bills she didn’t have much money left over for anything else. My father has never been in my life and was incarcerated most of my life so my mother never received any financial assistance from him. Every time my mom attempted to set aside money towards my college education something always came up, sometimes it would be a bill or something would break unexpectedly leaving me with zero dollars towards my college education. …show more content…
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