College Admissions Essay: Personal Reason For Attending College

Ones personal reasons for attending college is molded mainly based on their upbringing. Those who may have grown up in a wealthy environment may choose college because they want to join a sorority or fraternity that their ancestors have become greatly apart of rather than education because a successful future is handed to them. Those who may have grown up in a poor household with a promising mind will use that mind to study their way into providing for their family. As the product of a fifteen-year-old irresponsible couple from Compton California, a father also being in prison since before my birth, and a very privileged lifestyle my reasoning for attending college is different from most. I am not in college because I want the opportunity to make a lot of money, or even because I value education. My reasoning is based on my wants to prove a point, high recognition in the long run, and pressure held over me. Due to my parents being so young and known for their irresponsibility, and also a family background that holds a line of strong black men and women who lived their life working any job that would …show more content…
This caused me to have a different mentality and surrounding that no one in my family has had. As a result of this, I began to feel it was necessary to attend college because the friends that I surrounded myself with and also the schools I was placed in made college seem like it was just a way of life and it was just how life was supposed to go. I began to believe that college wasn’t a choice that people made, it was just the next step in education that everyone does as if it was a transfer from middle school to high school. I felt I was expected to attend college because if I did not I wouldn’t be doing what normal young adults do after high