he summer of my sophomore year, I was bored. I was too old for summer camp, but I was too young to get a summer job. One day I received an email from the University of Chicago’s office of admissions. The e-mail was encouraging high school students to attend their summer open house. My interested piqued and I immediately filled out the visitor information form. After leaving the open house highly satisfied, I told my mother that I wanted to go to UChicago. Similar to this prompt, my mother curiously asked me,”Why UChicago?”. I replied to my mother as if she had just offended me:“Why UChicago? Instead, what you should be asking me is, ‘why would you not want to go to UChicago?’”
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College is a necessity but it is often very expensive, I come from a single-parent home and worry about paying for college, Most colleges and universities provide their students with financial aid in the form of a single institutional scholarship and the option to either pay out of pocket, or to take out a loan. I became overwhelmed at the thought of having to take out a loan because once I enter the workforce, I would like be able to live off of my salary. When I became familiar with the details of No Barriers, my worries subsided because I always dreamt of having the possible opportunity to obtain a quality education at a highly accredited …show more content…
Before attending high school, my elementary school teachers would talk about civic engagement, and their descriptions lead me to believe that participating in community service would be boring and burdensome. I remember my teachers saying things like,” In high school you’re going to have to do community service in order to graduate. Such as volunteer at an elderly home, or an animal shelter.” Prior to actually completing a service project, I only had an unappealing image of community service in mind. However, once I got to high school, I grew to love community service as well as learn the importance of
UChicago’s commitment to post secondary education via the No Barriers …show more content…
College is a necessity but it is often very expensive, I come from a single-parent home and worry about paying for college, Most colleges and universities provide their students with financial aid in the form of a single institutional scholarship and the option to either pay out of pocket, or to take out a loan. I became overwhelmed at the thought of having to take out a loan because once I enter the workforce, I would like be able to live off of my salary. When I became familiar with the details of No Barriers, my worries subsided because I always dreamt of having the possible opportunity to obtain a quality education at a highly accredited …show more content…
Before attending high school, my elementary school teachers would talk about civic engagement, and their descriptions lead me to believe that participating in community service would be boring and burdensome. I remember my teachers saying things like,” In high school you’re going to have to do community service in order to graduate. Such as volunteer at an elderly home, or an animal shelter.” Prior to actually completing a service project, I only had an unappealing image of community service in mind. However, once I got to high school, I grew to love community service as well as learn the importance of