Extraordinary curiosity, tenacious integrity, and ceaseless resiliency combine to create the ideal student, teacher, and researcher. Inspired by the potential from understanding social dynamics, I have labored endless hours admiring the work of research from those who exemplify these traits and have become adamant about my pursuit of a career in sociological research. Through these endless hours of labor, I have developed the characteristics and mentality to exceed expectations in the field of sociology through my own life experiences and have become an ideal candidate for UCLA.
Previous academic performance may indicate how an individual is likely to perform in the classroom, but is by no means the only predictor of performance, as a one-dimensional …show more content…
This display of resiliency has been presented all throughout my life and remains ceaseless. On an extreme occasion in my life, I was without a home, living at the local laundry mat in my small town. I was poor, homeless, and only a seventeen-year-old junior in high school. Amid conflict and controversy where I grew up, I decided it was in the best interest for my future to go about life on my own, and I have been on my own since. Many people who knew me were confident that I would end up like most teenagers in my situation, a high school dropout or perhaps a prison inmate. Instead of allowing my life to devolve, I only became a better person. I finished the rest of high school performing very well academically and was even accepted into the University of South Dakota after I was told there was little hope of me making it into college. While at USD for my first semester, it became obvious that I would not be able to afford college. Without any financial support from others and working minimum wage jobs, I had exhausted all of my efforts to remained in college. Being in a state of hopelessness and feeling the burden of many disadvantages as a poor member of society, it was then that the roots of my sociological imagination grew. I had worked as hard as I could to get to where I wanted to be but encountered many road blocks. I currently work around twenty hours a week or so as a full-time student. I know that my academic performance would be better if it were not for the necessity to work so much. Despite all of my disadvantages, the resiliency I have consistently displayed has optimized my qualifications for the sociology Ph.D. program at
Previous academic performance may indicate how an individual is likely to perform in the classroom, but is by no means the only predictor of performance, as a one-dimensional …show more content…
This display of resiliency has been presented all throughout my life and remains ceaseless. On an extreme occasion in my life, I was without a home, living at the local laundry mat in my small town. I was poor, homeless, and only a seventeen-year-old junior in high school. Amid conflict and controversy where I grew up, I decided it was in the best interest for my future to go about life on my own, and I have been on my own since. Many people who knew me were confident that I would end up like most teenagers in my situation, a high school dropout or perhaps a prison inmate. Instead of allowing my life to devolve, I only became a better person. I finished the rest of high school performing very well academically and was even accepted into the University of South Dakota after I was told there was little hope of me making it into college. While at USD for my first semester, it became obvious that I would not be able to afford college. Without any financial support from others and working minimum wage jobs, I had exhausted all of my efforts to remained in college. Being in a state of hopelessness and feeling the burden of many disadvantages as a poor member of society, it was then that the roots of my sociological imagination grew. I had worked as hard as I could to get to where I wanted to be but encountered many road blocks. I currently work around twenty hours a week or so as a full-time student. I know that my academic performance would be better if it were not for the necessity to work so much. Despite all of my disadvantages, the resiliency I have consistently displayed has optimized my qualifications for the sociology Ph.D. program at