AliTaha
Dec 30, 2013
Undergraduate / EducationUSA advisor in Dubai; MIT essay/ Most significant challenge [5]
The prompt "Tell us about the most significant challenge you've faced or something important that didn't go according to plan. How did you manage the situation?"
About three months ago, my dad took me to the EducationUSA advisor in Dubai. We talked for a while, and during that talk, she couldn't stress enough how much I needed to register for the SAT. Now that was a tough sell for me considering I was a British curriculum student who was doing three A-Levels, it just didn't click. My parents also tried to persuade me to register for the SAT, and, on October 3rd, I did, and I had a lot of ground to cover.
Fast forward to November 2nd, I finally did the exam, and I was relieved because I thought the journey was over. However, I was wrong, because the journey had only just begun. I had debated doing the SAT II exam with my father and myself before actually registering for the exam. I had 5 weeks to prepare for the exam. And I'm proud of myself because I did the exam, prepared for it mostly by myself, and I was happy with the results.
The challenge here was more a mental war than anything. I was reluctant to do the SAT at first because I though I was in a completely different ballpark, I was proven wrong when I actually started studying for the exams. Indeed, the English section of the SAT exam was different, but the SAT II exams did have their similarities with their A-Level counterparts. I'm glad I did the exams, and I'm proud, of most, of the results.
The prompt "Tell us about the most significant challenge you've faced or something important that didn't go according to plan. How did you manage the situation?"
About three months ago, my dad took me to the EducationUSA advisor in Dubai. We talked for a while, and during that talk, she couldn't stress enough how much I needed to register for the SAT. Now that was a tough sell for me considering I was a British curriculum student who was doing three A-Levels, it just didn't click. My parents also tried to persuade me to register for the SAT, and, on October 3rd, I did, and I had a lot of ground to cover.
Fast forward to November 2nd, I finally did the exam, and I was relieved because I thought the journey was over. However, I was wrong, because the journey had only just begun. I had debated doing the SAT II exam with my father and myself before actually registering for the exam. I had 5 weeks to prepare for the exam. And I'm proud of myself because I did the exam, prepared for it mostly by myself, and I was happy with the results.
The challenge here was more a mental war than anything. I was reluctant to do the SAT at first because I though I was in a completely different ballpark, I was proven wrong when I actually started studying for the exams. Indeed, the English section of the SAT exam was different, but the SAT II exams did have their similarities with their A-Level counterparts. I'm glad I did the exams, and I'm proud, of most, of the results.
