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Feb 27, 2017
Undergraduate / UT Austin Transfer/Statement of Purpose Essay - extra elements which complete my applicarion [5]
Hello! I'm currently wanting to transfer to UT Austin and I need someone to look over my paper for me, I'm open and happy to take any comments, Thank you so much!
Essay Prompt: The statement of purpose will provide an opportunity to explain any extenuating circumstances...
In the first grade, I was the oddball of the classroom. While everyone sat around the rainbow carpet reading fun books like Junie B. Jones, I sat in the corner testing my reading knowledge. In my elementary school, we had a program called Accelerated Reading where students competed by quizzes for reading the most amount of books. So, while my friends ate lunch, I was consuming book after book in the library and I managed to claim first prize all five years. All I have to show from this, besides extensive knowledge on elementary school novels, is my high level of determination. Through my years, I've learned to love taking challenges head on. Transitioning from a bookworm to a full fledge leader was a long process that started with my time as a yearbook editor. My first year being an editor, I was in charge of a group of ten students who were notorious for never completing their work. Starting out, I struggled to get any of them to complete their work. The writers hated writing and the photographers pictures were sub-par. Yet, by evaluating their strengths, I quickly began to lead the most efficient group in the class. I found out our writer that hated writing was an amazing yearbook salesperson and the photographer who took poor pictures was extremely talented at Photoshop. By employing their best strengths, I helped them all get A's in the class and the yearbook received hardworking staff members. Yet, being a senior year editor was a whole new ball game as the job description included leading class lectures. Twice a month I had to prepare a lecture about design or writing skills for the class. Over time, however, I enjoyed it. Knowing my lecture helped students score A's on concepts like anecdotal writing. Public speaking was always a challenge for me but I quickly began to be confident with speaking in front of a class of 20 people. Though in front of 250 people it was a whole different story. In my freshman orientation class at Baylor, all 250 of my classmates and I were asked to write a paper on ethics in business for the annual Baylor ethics Slam. The top papers would be selected and asked to participate in a spoken second round. I was one of the few selected and on the day of the competition I was all nerves. After giving an ethical scenario, I told the class how I would respond and the students voted on who did the best. At first, I felt like I did terrible but later found out I placed third out of everyone. This validated my gut feeling of always taking every opportunity that presents itself to me. Opportunities like taking heavy course loads in school. Instead of taking classes to boost my GPA I opted for courses that spiked my interest. Taking interesting courses meant I had a larger knowledge about European renaissance art and Napoleon Bonaparte than most of my high school peers. I actually knew about the implications of environmental policy change in the news because of my AP environmental science class. Even when I could not fit AP government into my schedule, I learned it on my own and ended up getting a 4 on the AP test. My trend of taking numerous tough classes continued as I attended Baylor. I decided to get my basic level business classes over with first semester so I could dive into the major-specific courses. This meant taking Intro to Business, Management Information Systems, and my freshman intro course all at the same time. This was certainly a challenge as I balanced Calculus and a lab science as well. Yet, I managed to pull it off and decided to take on an equally challenging second semester including an intensive advanced Spanish course. As I go through life, I've learned the hard parts are what make life living. With that in mind, applying to be a UT longhorn is certainly no easy task. As someone who wants to major in advertising, I can't help but want to be able to market myself as best as possible. I know that an advertising degree from UT would essentially be the best advertisement campaign I could run for myself. If accepted to the Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations I look forward to surrounding myself with like-minded students in organizations like TAG (Texas Advertising Group) and being enrolled in a top ten program in the country. Being surrounded by professors who are top in their field such as Terry Hemeyer, an extremely successful communication executive, and Tracy Arrington, a media director for a large advertising agency, is an exciting prospect for my education. Thinking about the challenge that is UT excites me and I know it's a challenge I'm ready to face head on. I've been preparing for this my whole life and I can't wait to start facing it.
Hello! I'm currently wanting to transfer to UT Austin and I need someone to look over my paper for me, I'm open and happy to take any comments, Thank you so much!
Essay Prompt: The statement of purpose will provide an opportunity to explain any extenuating circumstances...
the oddball of the classroom
In the first grade, I was the oddball of the classroom. While everyone sat around the rainbow carpet reading fun books like Junie B. Jones, I sat in the corner testing my reading knowledge. In my elementary school, we had a program called Accelerated Reading where students competed by quizzes for reading the most amount of books. So, while my friends ate lunch, I was consuming book after book in the library and I managed to claim first prize all five years. All I have to show from this, besides extensive knowledge on elementary school novels, is my high level of determination. Through my years, I've learned to love taking challenges head on. Transitioning from a bookworm to a full fledge leader was a long process that started with my time as a yearbook editor. My first year being an editor, I was in charge of a group of ten students who were notorious for never completing their work. Starting out, I struggled to get any of them to complete their work. The writers hated writing and the photographers pictures were sub-par. Yet, by evaluating their strengths, I quickly began to lead the most efficient group in the class. I found out our writer that hated writing was an amazing yearbook salesperson and the photographer who took poor pictures was extremely talented at Photoshop. By employing their best strengths, I helped them all get A's in the class and the yearbook received hardworking staff members. Yet, being a senior year editor was a whole new ball game as the job description included leading class lectures. Twice a month I had to prepare a lecture about design or writing skills for the class. Over time, however, I enjoyed it. Knowing my lecture helped students score A's on concepts like anecdotal writing. Public speaking was always a challenge for me but I quickly began to be confident with speaking in front of a class of 20 people. Though in front of 250 people it was a whole different story. In my freshman orientation class at Baylor, all 250 of my classmates and I were asked to write a paper on ethics in business for the annual Baylor ethics Slam. The top papers would be selected and asked to participate in a spoken second round. I was one of the few selected and on the day of the competition I was all nerves. After giving an ethical scenario, I told the class how I would respond and the students voted on who did the best. At first, I felt like I did terrible but later found out I placed third out of everyone. This validated my gut feeling of always taking every opportunity that presents itself to me. Opportunities like taking heavy course loads in school. Instead of taking classes to boost my GPA I opted for courses that spiked my interest. Taking interesting courses meant I had a larger knowledge about European renaissance art and Napoleon Bonaparte than most of my high school peers. I actually knew about the implications of environmental policy change in the news because of my AP environmental science class. Even when I could not fit AP government into my schedule, I learned it on my own and ended up getting a 4 on the AP test. My trend of taking numerous tough classes continued as I attended Baylor. I decided to get my basic level business classes over with first semester so I could dive into the major-specific courses. This meant taking Intro to Business, Management Information Systems, and my freshman intro course all at the same time. This was certainly a challenge as I balanced Calculus and a lab science as well. Yet, I managed to pull it off and decided to take on an equally challenging second semester including an intensive advanced Spanish course. As I go through life, I've learned the hard parts are what make life living. With that in mind, applying to be a UT longhorn is certainly no easy task. As someone who wants to major in advertising, I can't help but want to be able to market myself as best as possible. I know that an advertising degree from UT would essentially be the best advertisement campaign I could run for myself. If accepted to the Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations I look forward to surrounding myself with like-minded students in organizations like TAG (Texas Advertising Group) and being enrolled in a top ten program in the country. Being surrounded by professors who are top in their field such as Terry Hemeyer, an extremely successful communication executive, and Tracy Arrington, a media director for a large advertising agency, is an exciting prospect for my education. Thinking about the challenge that is UT excites me and I know it's a challenge I'm ready to face head on. I've been preparing for this my whole life and I can't wait to start facing it.