I am writing an application essay for a summer college program and I'm not sure how well all works together, the essay questions are:
1. Why did you apply to this program.
2. What do you hope to gain from the experience should you be accepted?
I am a math geek, and amongst my siblings, that makes me an anomaly. There are a few differences between us - I am comparatively short (a mere five foot nine.), I don’t have hundreds of friends, and I am on a crew team. The most glaring difference between us though, is my love of math. I love my brothers and sister, but I just understand numbers in a way they don’t.
I have always been a math geek, my mom often tells people of when she first noticed it. I was four, she says, and when I told her that if I made ten smiley face buttons and sold them for fifty cents each, I would make five dollars. Apparently she didn’t expect me to do be able change dollars to cents quickly. My ability to do that as young as I did set me apart from my siblings for the rest of my life, I am the one cursed to always having to figure out the tip at restaurants, despite them being far older.
My differences from my family extend into academia more so than just math. My family has a long history not having much education beyond high school. For a long time I thought that was just the way things were, people with a lot of money go to college, those that just get by make sausage or join the military and people that just get by, but are ambitious might get to draw blood for a living. My mom has been a phlebotomist for the past 30 years, and she started nursing school last spring. She is my inspiration for an education; but I want to go to college when I am young so that it will be easier for me than it is for her- a widow with four kids, going back to school with people twenty years younger than her, whilst worrying about kid in Iraq.
I want to go to Summer College because I aim to be more academic than those who have come before me. I don’t want to be medical or military like most of my family, I want to be mathematical. I applied to be like my mom, strong and smart, I hope that attending this program will help me expand my mathematical knowledge so I can be better than my siblings and force me to be social, so I can be more like the parts of them that I admire.
1. Why did you apply to this program.
2. What do you hope to gain from the experience should you be accepted?
I am a math geek, and amongst my siblings, that makes me an anomaly. There are a few differences between us - I am comparatively short (a mere five foot nine.), I don’t have hundreds of friends, and I am on a crew team. The most glaring difference between us though, is my love of math. I love my brothers and sister, but I just understand numbers in a way they don’t.
I have always been a math geek, my mom often tells people of when she first noticed it. I was four, she says, and when I told her that if I made ten smiley face buttons and sold them for fifty cents each, I would make five dollars. Apparently she didn’t expect me to do be able change dollars to cents quickly. My ability to do that as young as I did set me apart from my siblings for the rest of my life, I am the one cursed to always having to figure out the tip at restaurants, despite them being far older.
My differences from my family extend into academia more so than just math. My family has a long history not having much education beyond high school. For a long time I thought that was just the way things were, people with a lot of money go to college, those that just get by make sausage or join the military and people that just get by, but are ambitious might get to draw blood for a living. My mom has been a phlebotomist for the past 30 years, and she started nursing school last spring. She is my inspiration for an education; but I want to go to college when I am young so that it will be easier for me than it is for her- a widow with four kids, going back to school with people twenty years younger than her, whilst worrying about kid in Iraq.
I want to go to Summer College because I aim to be more academic than those who have come before me. I don’t want to be medical or military like most of my family, I want to be mathematical. I applied to be like my mom, strong and smart, I hope that attending this program will help me expand my mathematical knowledge so I can be better than my siblings and force me to be social, so I can be more like the parts of them that I admire.