Personal Narrative: My Life As A Latino Student

I considered myself to be an anomaly of a high school student. Being a Latino Student, the odds were not in my favor that I was enrolled at a four-year institution. Furthermore, I differed greatly from tradition Latino students as I was 4th generation college student. I came from a college educated Latino family. Although most of my family was educated in Peru, many have since immigrated to the United States acquiring jobs that utilize their foreign college degrees. I attended a private Christian school from kindergarten through high school. This allowed me to be exposed to many things that traditionally other Latino would not have access to in public education. My private school taught and used methods of teaching that were fundamentally different than public schools. The knowledge offered by my educated family, as well as my primary and secondary education, influenced my ability to enroll at a 4-year university.
I came from a long line of medical health professionals on my mother side and business professionals on my father’s side of the family. My parents immigrated to the Texas from Peru in 1986. My father came to the United States under a scholarship so long as he received adequate grades in first semester English courses at Southwestern …show more content…
As mentioned above my family is highly educated. This put a tremendous pressure to attain the same level as them. Gaining a bachelors degree would only put me at equal terms as the rest of my family. The pressure my parents put on me to get good grades in high school to get scholarships for college was very difficult to bear. It caused me develop severe anxiety to the point that I needed to take medication. I also started to fall under deep depression because the pressure to succeed likes the rest of my family. This did not affect my grades in any way. This was just a sink or swim ultimatum to succeed to enroll in