Personal Statement: A Career As An International Student

Have you ever thought you could be great in a career… if only you had the funds? As a seventeen year-old DACA student, I have faced many financial obstacles in my college application process. As a non-citizen, I am unqualified for financial aid from things such as the FAFSA.This means that I have to depend on my family for support on paying for college. I have always tried my hardest in school to keep my grades as high as possible and learn as much as I could, knowing that one day I would need this education for a better life and career. I am currently in the process of applying to college. However, as a member of a low-income family, it has become apparent that the biggest obstacle between me and professional future is my financial necessity.As

I would also like to continue on the fact that it would help rid of anxiety and stress. This scholarship would allow me to purchase all of my books, pencils, classes, and other basic needs to go to school. Covering that cost would definitely take away stress, anxiety and heart aches. I would not go into serious debt from college which would help me financially now and

Moreover, I was in my junior year when this took part in a series of events where I excel making me figure upon a selected group of students. I received the AVID Grit Award an honor for those who showed determination. I was one of the two AVID students who received choose from 190 students. However, since I came to the United States I did not change much. Furthermore, I still feeling like the self-reliant techy programmer fully engage with his studies and trying to be on balance.

DI would say, successfully starting over as a non traditional student is my most meaningful achievement to date. While I've achieved most, if not all, goals that I've set to carry out, Most meaningfully, coming to terms with a juvenile decision and not giving up serves as my most telling accomplishment.

As much as the world tries to say that money isn’t everything, money does make certain situations better. I want to ease the burden that my family and I bare in attempting to send me to college. Also scholarships will help me maintain healthy stress levels while I’m in college. I will be able to focus on my studies without the constant stress of how I am going to pay for my tuition. I will be far more motivated, diligent, and disciplined to complete my degree if I have scholarships to support me. Knowing that someone else has placed their confidence in me will give me extra incentive to complete my

Being an immigrant and coming from a poor family, money has always been an issue in my life. Barely having the money to pay for the rent and bills each month, it makes life very complicated and frustrating for my family. I’m writing this statement to you because I’m afraid I will not have enough money to cover for my tuition as I enroll in Hamline University this fall. With the lack of money, it means that I would have to take a lot of loans which I don’t want to do because I don’t want to work the rest of my life just trying to pay off my loan debt. I desperately need your help because if I don’t go to college this year, I will have to wait another semester again.

If awarded this scholarship some of the financial strain that I will encompass this semester will be removed. It will allow some helps to not only myself a full time student who works part time to help pay for things like rent, transportation and other incidentals but also my parents who are apart of the working class and while supporting me through college paying for everything; books, rent, tuition, transportations, incidentals, also have my three siblings who are all high school and middle school aged. In addition to this they also support my elderly grand mother and great aunt so any financial help that will not only allow me to focus more on my studies by eliminating debt but also allow my parents to be able to spend their funds else where by eliminating financial strain is always

My mother is an elementary school teacher and my father is a mechanic for the United States Postal Service. Together, they have two biological children (my younger sister and I,) five adopted children (four of my brothers and one sister,) and one foster son, who will be adopted soon. However their generosity far exceeds their income and my family has been financially insecure for most of my life. With eight people living in our household the cost of the morgage, food, medical bills, and other expenses are high, especially for two people from middle class with modest income. Because of the high cost of living for my family, my parent's aren't able to pay for my college or take out a loan. I've been able to get some financial aid at my choice college, however, the whole cost isn't met.

However, my parents have told me that they simply do not have any extra money to give me for college, not even money for books. I work 28 hours a week on top of going to school just so I can try my best to save for college along with paying for my essentials. When my parents told me they wouldn't be helping me with college it was like a wave of sadness hit me. My parents told me that they simply can not afford to help me through college. My mom also has arthritis in both of her hands and can barely use her thumbs anymore. At some point this year she is going to have to get surgery on them because it interferes with her work and every day life. When my mom gets this surgery she will be out of work for at least 4 months leaving my dad to maintain all the bills. I have seen my dad with burns all over his dads day after day from his job and have seen how much it drains him. Since he never had the opportunity of college he is forced to have a very dangerous and hard working job which is often harmful to him. I want to be able to go to college, and receive the education that my parents were never able to

My dad is a truck driver; he is a hard worker that has never given up when economic problems face us. He earns a proximally $2,400 Dlls per month, he has to manage to make that money last, but having three sons in college including myself is harder. What helps him a lot is that my two brothers who are in college and are U.S citizens get FASFA, but me that I’m in the process of become a U.S resident I don’t get FASFA. But I’m very lucky to have parents that have always supported me paying for my school, if it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be probably studying anymore.

Well in order to describe about my need for financial assistance I am a person who came from a middle class family. My dad works as a lecturer and my mom is a homemaker. I am so happy to share that I was the only person in my family to pursue my graduate studies. For my first semester (fall 2016) it took really hard for my dad to pay for my tutution fee at Eastern because I havent been offered any online course. I have done 3 face to face subjects in my first semester which costed my tutuion fee high. I have also been offered with 4000$ scholarship per semester at Southeast Missouri State University for my masters program but I have applied transfer and came to Eastern for my graduate studies. When it comes to my sibblings I have an younger

From an early age, I had the desire to give back to my community. This desire was likely instilled in me by my mother, who as a school teacher, went to great lengths to help her students achieve academically. To better do this, she created at Tupelo Middle School in Mississippi, the Mermaids and Argonauts Program, which allowed students to travel on extended school trips to locations where they were able to have hands-on experiences at zoos, science labs, colleges, museums, and more across the country. As her child, I was able to tag along on many of these trips, which fueled my desire to learn about and interact with my environment. It left me with the great hope that someday I would be able to have such experiences abroad, in order to better learn about the people and cultures with which I interact. For this reason, I hope to study abroad this summer in Pachuca, Mexico.

Since childhood, I have tried my best to find something in which I excelled, a path in life that I could turn into a career choice. However, it had not been as simple as I thought for as I developed, matured and refined my academic skills, my passions changed as I gained a love for the sciences. Initially, I wanted to explore a career in detective work, which I pursued for two years. Then at age fifteen, I had my heart set on pursuing law, primarily because I wanted to help people, especially those who had been faced with injustice. However, as I enrolled and completed more advanced and challenging Science classes, I began to develop a passion for pursuing a career in science and its related field. The constant that remained true, though, is that in every career path I desired, I knew that I wanted to help others.

However, my joy is marred by the fact that I have to cope with significant financial problems. During all these years I was forced to take low-wage jobs and, as a result, I don’t have any savings. I live on my own. My amazing parents have supported me morally and financially throughout my life, but they are not young already and close to retirement age. As a 30-year-old woman, I realize that very soon it will be my turn to take care of them. I live alone and have to pay all learning and living costs and to support myself. My student loan will not cover my accommodation costs. These are the realities of my life. That is why receiving this scholarship means a lot to me. It will give me the opportunity to complete my education and subsequently will allow me to succeed in life. Therefore, any financial help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and consideration.

As a graduate student in School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, I have acquired so many skills ranging from corporate communications, public relations, brand communications, advertising, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), advanced writing, public speaking, just to mention a few.