Receiving Scholarships

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At the young tender age I am getting a car is least of my worries and making enough income to stay in college should be my goal. Receiving scholarships to begin my journey toward becoming a computer engineer is what I worry about the most. I have realized at a young age that the only way to become successful and make my family proud is to graduate college unscathed from becoming a stereotype or a negative statistic. Many young African-American women in this generation do not graduate from college and even a smaller number continue to pursue their careers. I would like to be the start of a new generation where women of all ethnicity have a degree they can be proud of. The only way to become that great person like my parents expects me to be

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