My College Admissions Essay: My Journey To Success

I was born in Germany with a German mother and an American father. The benefit of being born into a German family and living in Europe for the first ten years of my life was the greatest privilege I experienced throughout my sixteen years of living. However, my father was in the military at the time causing for a slight pressure to always be prevalent for the duration of my younger years. This mainly revolved around the fact that my sister was able to grow up in Germany and I wanted that same opportunity. Soon after these aspirations were formed, they became mere dreams that never would be fulfilled because my dad was given orders to either move to Mississippi or Oklahoma, which both deemed to be the middle-of-nowhere. Being the age that I …show more content…
Throughout all of years, my parents encouraged me to make my education an incredibly important factor in my life, allowing for me to want to be successful in my years throughout college and beyond, and thankfully so. Although there was a bit of stress caused by my higher expectations of myself, I was still able to see that it would bring me incredibly far. My sophomore year I decided to go on the path of early graduation, with the goal of finishing my junior and senior year in two semesters as well as finishing a year of college through dual enrollment, encompassing this past year. I am already halfway done with the year and I can see the significance the move here made.
Although the education I would have received in Germany would have been at a higher level, I believe that I have accomplished more than I ever would have at my old school due to the higher expectations I set in stone for myself here. I never would have expected to be given so many opportunities in my life at such a young age. This shows that sometimes change is one of the greatest blessings that can happen to a person; it has definitely been the greatest blessing I have