Rodeo Scholarship Essay

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Achieving the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Scholarship would benefit my family tremendously since I am planning to go to the University of St. Thomas in Houston which is a private 4-year university meaning it will costly compare to public postsecondary institutions. Additionally, the scholarship provides a 5,000 dollar four-year renewable scholarship and it will be a great financial assistance towards my tuition to strive for Bachelor’s degree. I need this scholarship to help me fund for my attendance to college. Due to my parent’s income, I will not receive a substantial amount of financial aid because their income range is not considered to be financially need based which many scholarships look for. Therefore, while searching for scholarships, when I see a scholarship requirement …show more content…
However, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo allows me to show why I need this scholarship which makes me so eager to do my best to express my financial situations at my home without just looking at my parents’ income dictating whether I should obtain the scholarship or not.

If I win this scholarship, I will not only benefit myself to achieve a postsecondary education without financial anxieties, it will help my parents have more money to provide for a six-member household. Moreover, providing care to my elderly grandparents is costly which ranges to their food to medications to keep them healthy. In addition, I have a brother who will go to college after I graduate from college attaining a Bachelor’s degree which means my parents need provide more more money to pay for his college tuition. Overall, we need a vast amount of money to pay for necessities in our big family under a two-story home which the bills to maintain that home is very high. My family’s income barely pays for the essentials to maintain a

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