Undergraduate /
"financial struggles" Personal Statement [4]
The idea behind your essay is very strong.
Some places I am confused, like when you say "it was then that I realized that I was selfish, ignorant, and self-centered." There is no evidence that shows how "selfish" you claim to be. I would not consider wanting a camera to be selfish. You decided to work hard to earn it yourself, which is not selfish at all.
There are a few other minor things I would advise you to change, such as:
--That obsession was
a beautiful Canon T1i Rebel Digital SLR camera
--
Moving from place to place, bouncing from school to school, and from community to community : This sentence does not use parallel structure; in two parts of the sentence you use -ing verbs but you don't use it in the last part.
Also a few minor spelling errors such as
understwndBut other than that I think your essay is really strong in topic!