My senior year in high school was definitely one of my favorite times of my life. There are several reasons for this: I had a more independent lifestyle than my junior year, I started working for an amazing company downtown, and I met a lot of friends. However, my most favorite thing about my senior year was the long and arduous process of applying to colleges, and deciding where to go. It was an adventure that allowed me to pave the way for my current lifestyle.
In my junior year, I started looking up on colleges that I want to apply to. Since I started this process I set my sights to one particular school: Meadows University. I remember my first time hearing about the school in an Internet video. Everyone looked happy, and people genuinely …show more content…
They asked me the one question that I had to answer throughout this process: “Why?” Everyone tried to deter me to going: they kept saying that it’s too far, too cold, too lonely. Whatever advantage that I said, it seemed to them like it was just a bad idea. After much deliberation, they decided to support my dream, and agreed to my idea. Another person that I said this to was Jessie: my life-long friend. Her college application process was a lot less complicated: she committed to Garden Grove University in New York City to play volleyball on a scholarship. When she heard of this, she was surprised at first, but she supported me nonetheless. However, she said the words that summed everyone thoughts on my dream: “I support you, but I still want you to stay …show more content…
I particularly liked the essays for those two universities. Meadows asked me to talk about my passion, which was very easy. My passion was, and still is history. It felt right, and it felt like I was fully immersed in history, and I looked forward to doing that throughout my life. On the other hand, Lakewood’s essay was a bit open-ended: it asked me to answer my own question. To do that, I asked myself to show them the inner workings of my brain. I’m very proud of my two essays in those schools because I was able to show myself in those two essays. Although it was stressful as a whole because of other requirements like tests, letters of recommendations, and financial aid applications, the essay writing process created an area in my life where I could express myself. In the end of December, I submitted my applications for both colleges, and I know that I did my best for both applications, and I celebrated my success with my friends and
In my junior year, I started looking up on colleges that I want to apply to. Since I started this process I set my sights to one particular school: Meadows University. I remember my first time hearing about the school in an Internet video. Everyone looked happy, and people genuinely …show more content…
They asked me the one question that I had to answer throughout this process: “Why?” Everyone tried to deter me to going: they kept saying that it’s too far, too cold, too lonely. Whatever advantage that I said, it seemed to them like it was just a bad idea. After much deliberation, they decided to support my dream, and agreed to my idea. Another person that I said this to was Jessie: my life-long friend. Her college application process was a lot less complicated: she committed to Garden Grove University in New York City to play volleyball on a scholarship. When she heard of this, she was surprised at first, but she supported me nonetheless. However, she said the words that summed everyone thoughts on my dream: “I support you, but I still want you to stay …show more content…
I particularly liked the essays for those two universities. Meadows asked me to talk about my passion, which was very easy. My passion was, and still is history. It felt right, and it felt like I was fully immersed in history, and I looked forward to doing that throughout my life. On the other hand, Lakewood’s essay was a bit open-ended: it asked me to answer my own question. To do that, I asked myself to show them the inner workings of my brain. I’m very proud of my two essays in those schools because I was able to show myself in those two essays. Although it was stressful as a whole because of other requirements like tests, letters of recommendations, and financial aid applications, the essay writing process created an area in my life where I could express myself. In the end of December, I submitted my applications for both colleges, and I know that I did my best for both applications, and I celebrated my success with my friends and