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Eric Ming Scholarship Essay

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Scholarship, an award to assist students to pursue their educational goals. This scholarship, with its background of Eric Ming’s involvement towards basketball, really pulled me in because basketball was the sport that pushed me towards being active and having an interest in sports. The chance for winning this scholarship would help me pursue my education goal of attending at Simon Fraser University in the Health Sciences faculty or the Arts faculty and eventually becoming a pediatric dentist.

Firstly, the Eric Ming scholarship motivates me to achieve the goals I’ve set myself, the goal of becoming a pediatric dentist. Coming from an Asian background, my parents always pushed me towards the medical area for a career, especially a doctor. High school was a closer step to becoming an adult, where I was on my own and making my own decisions. This led my parents to put more pressure and …show more content…

However, all I wanted to do was to make my parents proud of me, everything I’ve done in secondary school. So, with combining my passion for science and helping others and being fulfill the dream my parents set for me, it resulted me to pursuing a career as a pediatric dentist. In addition, the scholarship would assist my family financially. With my parents’ full time jobs earning about $18 each, it caused my parents tension because they both had to provide for a family of four. For instance, my brother whose in his mid-twenties always had to lend my parents a hand financially, when it came to the bills and mortgages. Personally, I couldn’t do the same action as my brother because I was too young to understand about the concepts of money and finances. However,

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