Personal Narrative: My Acceptance To Grand Canyon University

One of the most meaningful accomplishments of my life was my acceptance to Stokes Early College. It is an exceptional program that has allowed me to take college classes while still in high school and graduate with an associate's degree. It was especially challenging for me, because I was previously diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder (ADHD.) However, despite being given this label, I was especially motivated to work hard to achieve the goals important to me. When my acceptance letter came in the mail, I was so excited because I had completed my goal of being accepted to Stokes Early College, and had received a new goal of finishing the program and moving on to a university. Remaining and excelling in the program has required

I am Efrashia Nicole Crespin and I was raised here in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I had recently moved to Hobbs, New Mexico and came back to finish my high school career and start at New Mexico State University the following semester. I am majoring in the school of Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management as for short we call it HRTM. I have received numerous scholarships from the university in pursing in bachelors here at New Mexico State. I am grateful for the opportunities the school as offered to me coming from a very low income family.

This is a personal narrative that I wrote for my CSU application, and this piece helped me get accepted into Colorado State University. I wrote this piece completely outside of class during the first semester of my senior year. I didn’t take this to a teacher conference, but this is a piece that I am very proud of because I feel like the writing represents my person voice and not a character. However I had trouble figuring out how to put my thoughts into words, but I worked through the confusion and now my word choice flows very nicely.

I fell in love with her at the age of six. Her and I were going to be together forever. When the teacher came up to me and told me how perfect we were each other at the bake sale in second grade, I knew. When I went to fairs to sell cell phone cases with my dad and she was always with me, I knew. As we grew older, the closer we got and the more her and I understood each other. At this point, she had turned into a part of me, it was no longer her and I but rather we. Coming to University of Texas at Austin, has admittedly created a strain on our relationship. I was not sure if our relationship should continue, were we really meant for each other? I did not know her, I did not know how we would change the world, but now I do. This is the story

My decision to enroll at Grand Canyon University was in August when I turned 25 and felt I was not living up to my potential. I am currently a receptionist and I know I am too smart to be wasting my creative drive answering phones and running other employee’s errands. To reach my goals, I need higher education. I researched many online schools, but none stuck out quite like GCU did. I kept putting it off until I received an email about a scholarship only offered in November and I decided right then and there, it was time to go back to school.

I have had a great experience while attending Wallace Community College. I chose to come to Wallace because I got a full scholarship to attend and it was closer to home. One experience that I have had here is the teachers and faculty. All the teachers that I have had the pleasure of being in their classrooms have been nothing but exceptional. All of them have taught me valuable information that I will be able to use not only in progressing in my academic career but also in life. Every teacher always goes above and beyond to make their students feel welcomed and that you have a reason for being here. Secondly, another experience that I have had is the variety of classes you are able to take while attending Wallace. Even though it is a community

I was a student attending Grand Canyon University. As you already know my grades do not reflect what I earned in high school, there are reasons why this occurred but to be honest they were things that should not have affected me. However, they did and it was the online courses, the failed attempt to communicate and understand what was needed of me from my student advisor, the study process, and my roommates. I was used to turning things in by hand not through the internet, the school did however sent us instructions by email but it was very difficult to use. There were many steps to turn in an essay or a worksheet and you had to sure that your laptop could open all of the documents. Sometimes my laptop would crash because I had so many documents on it that it couldn't handle it.

I clicked on the mouse and it was done. I cannot believe it. I just submitted my college application for Armstrong State University. How surreal is that? I am saying a prayer because against all advice, this is the one and only college application I plan to submit. Some may say it’s a mistake or a pipe dream to only make one college selection, but I refuse to think of it as anything but my reality.

It seems to me that the world is changing. Technology is reaching new heights, culture had accelerated its pace, and most of all society itself is on the verge of something new. In what direction, this is all headed, I cannot say. What I do know is that it is not terrible as some might claim. What I do know is that that the world is getting more connected, opinions are traveling through space in less than a second, some good, some bad, some crazy and some painfully true. We live in a magnificent era, that is as breathtaking as it is polarizing. This new world I believe requires a new way of thinking, of learning, and that is what I have come to the Evergreen State College to attain.

I previously went to a private university in Chicago, soon after I knew my heart belonged to Washington State University. There was so many reasons why I choose to move across the country to go to WSU. The transition was hard: I had to leave my new friends, my new sorority, and an amazing city. But, Washington State University is the best fit for me because of the Ranking of the Nursing School, the cost, there is Beautiful Architecture, my boyfriend, a variety of clubs, and the location.

The University of California has broken records of how many students apply in hopes of admission into one of the prestigious campuses. Every application has something unique tied to it, as no one can be the exact same, yet it seems that over the years conformity has driven us as students to feel the need to look the same as other applicants while having a niche that makes us stand out. What is my special quality? I am another student with same goals as every other student in this application process which is to further my education at a university I feel most comfortable and driven at. I am a strong candidate not because I have the perfect test scores or the long list of extra circulars but because I have a forceful nature with the goal of

It is absolutely fascinating that a place that at one time feels completely foreign can eventually begin to feel like home. Before moving to Tucson to attend the University of Arizona, I had never moved even once. I lived in the same house in a rural community within Buckeye, Arizona for the first eighteen years of my life, so as could be expected, moving away from home was a huge shock. I knew very little about Tucson physically, culturally, or historically, and initially I simply viewed it as just another large, frightening, and unfamiliar city. However, my experiences of Tucson this semester have drastically changed my sense of Tucson as a place as I have grown to develop an appreciation for its unique history and a desire to immerse myself

All I could hear was the faint sound of Cigarette Daydreams by Cage the Elephant and my incessant thoughts that were corroding my mind. I was sitting in my cluttered car, but I didn’t mind that it was so hectic because that was me, that was my mind. The clock on the console read 10:02 and I had nowhere to be on such a chilly night for it to be in the middle of June. It was my best friend’s 17th birthday, and I spent the night contemplating what it meant to be 17 in a world where time was inevitably slipping away.

My college experience has been very non traditional. Besides from having to work basically full-time for the entirety of my college career, school in general has been a struggle. My freshmen year, I decided to stay near home and attend Govornors State University. At Govornors State, I did very well but I was not enjoying my time there. My family was extremely disappointed in my decision to stay home. I was always told to "get away" and "get the college experience". I knew I did not want to be far away but I wanted to make my parents proud so I made the decision to go to Illinois State University the following fall.

You would think the day I got my acceptance letter to the University of Maryland would have been one of the happiest days of my life, but it was one filled with anxiety. While my parents were over the moon that their daughter was accepted into such a prestigious school like the University of Maryland, I was calculating the cost of tuition, room and board, books. Sure, I was accepted into the University but it doesn't mean we actually had the money to go, so my acceptance letter was painfully tantalizing because it wasn’t a definite “yes” it was a “yes if you can pay $26,000.” Despite my 3.5, despite being involved in almost every aspect of high school— from holding JROTC and SGA leadership roles to being an editor on the Newspaper and making