I just recently found a copy of my SOMOS Scholarship essay that I sent in this last September. Many people have asked me if they could read it and so I am posting it here for anyone thats interested. This is a REALLY rough draft (and by rough i mean ROUGH! It's full of grammatical errors and run on/fragment sentences. I lost the final draft...it was saved on my computer hard-drive, which my father cleared without telling me...but that's a story for another day...) of it.
So anyway, here it is...read it at your own risk
Ever since I was a little girl, my parents taught me to dream. Everything was possible, the world was waiting for me to make decisions and grab hold to the many opportunities that were waiting for me. Nothing was beyond my reach, so I grew up with BIG dreams.
I was an inquisitive child. Always asking questions, always wanting to know why. I needed to know, I couldn’t rest until I knew the answer to all my question! In fact, at the end of 4th grade, my teacher gave me the award “Miss. Why”. For me, learning is what I love to do. It defines me. It is what wakes me up at 5:30 every single morning. It is what has inspired me to take the toughest classes that Provo High has to offer. Knowledge is invaluable to me. Nothing can ever top the feeling I get when I understand something.
However, learning hasn’t always been easy for me. Math has been a struggle, and with two parents working all day in order to maintain us “financially stable,” I couldn’t get much help at home. Every day in middle school I had to go in for lunch and get help or ask my friends to explain my impossible math homework. This is what separates me from most other teenagers my age: I get things done, I work hard and I somehow make everything work out in the end. I am determined to change my life and to change my parents life as well. They sacrifice so much for me, and sometimes I don’t think I say ‘thank you’ enough.
In the 10th grade, my family moved from Provo to South Jordan. To say I was devastated is an understatement. I was planning on starting my International Baccalaureate Diploma my junior year. I knew that this was the best education I could receive in high school and that if I didn’t do it I would be missing one of the best opportunities of my life. After much begging and pleading, I somehow managed to convince my parents to let me continue to go there. Every morning I get up and travel the 27 or so miles to go to school. My dad drives me every single morning to a bus stop on his way to work. When I said my parents sacrificed much for me, I wasn’t using the term loosely.
Provo High has offered me so many opportunities and options. Not only does it have the best educational program (i.e. International Baccalaureate), but it also has many other opportunities as well. In the 10th grade I took a class called ‘Latino’s in Action’. The Latino students who join go every other day to an elementary and middle schools to help other Latino students that speak little English and are struggling with school. It was empowering to help other students and to know that because of you, they might have a completely different outlook on education.
Provo High also has numerous clubs. I have been French club president since freshman year and have loved every minute of it. I am also involved with Arabic club, M.E.S.A, F.B.L.A, F.C.C.L.A, and C.A.S club. Outside of school I volunteer at the South Jordan Library and am a current member of my church choir. Being involved in so many after school activities has helped me become more social and over come my weakness: being shy.
Like I mentioned earlier, education is one of the most important part of who I am. I am taking six I.B classes. Even though I love every minute of every class, I wont lie and say that it’s easy. I have homework that takes up almost all of my time every single day. However, I know it will be worth it. I plan on attending a great university after high school because i want to continue with the best education possible. I am going to major in psychology, get great grades, study for the MCAT and get a top score, so that I can go to medical school at Yale University. I know it wont be easy, but I also know that I will do it.
In closing, I want to explain why I, Elizabeth Cohen, am the best candidate for the U.B.H.L scholarship. I will do whatever it takes to get a higher education. I am determined, ambitious and intelligent. I never quit and won’t start now. I have what most other students don’t have and that is a passion for knowledge. I am honest and a hard worker. If you choose me, you can rest assured you that you wont be let down.
Thank you for this opportunity,
Elizabeth Cohen
So that's it folks!
Until Next time!
xoxoxoxo
Ellie
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