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Mar 11, 2017
Undergraduate / YALE YOUNG AFRICANS essay - how my goals developed over time [2]
"1. We would like to know more about you and the context in which you have grown up, developed your goals, and earned your academic achievements. Please describe the factors that have most influenced you and your hopes and dreams. How have they shaped you? (500 words max.)"
I am an Egyptian student who was born in Giza. I lived peacefully with my family since I was young and my loving parents have taught me a lot of things and their main hope was to have a clever, respectable son. As I am the elder one among my two brothers I have taken the most care.
The first hope I have put when I was young that I want to be the best. I have always been the first among my friends in all the exams and tests. I have always wanted to be better than any other person. Maybe the main reason is that I wanted my parents to be proud of me.
Until grade eight I hadn't had any other hope in my life I only wanted to get high grades and have a lot of academic achievements. In eighth grade I have realized that life isn't only about academic achievements, I also needed to have friends to talk to and go out with, so I have started to work on this goal and I have succeeded being sociable especially after working in a jewelry shop which helped me communicating with many people.
In the ninth grade I have started the year badly and didn't want to study but a teacher of mine talked to me and told me that what I was doing is wrong and I can't prefer having friends upon my studies and academic life. She convinced me to study hard especially this year after knowing about STEM school. STEM is a scholarship given by the USAID to the young leaders. This was my new hope that I wanted to enter this school. It required me to get 98%+, I studied hard and had a challenge with a friend of mine. Finally, I have got 100% which was a surprise for all my friends and family.
I have entered the school test with 3500 students who wanted to enter the school. Some have taken many courses in order to know the type of the questions but I didn't because I didn't know. The entrance exam consisted from 4 parts math, science, Arabic, and IQ. I have informed that I was accepted and this have totally changed my life. After entering the school I have developed many other dreams and hopes which I am working right now to achieve.
The main dreams I have now is entering biomedical school in USA or Germany. So I am preparing to enter the SAT exam in October. Also, I am studying German in order to take the FIT test.
The main factors affected me is my family at first, my teachers who helped me along my academic and encouraged me, my friends especially that one who encouraged me to enter STEM, and also the extracurricular activities I have participated in.
"1. We would like to know more about you and the context in which you have grown up, developed your goals, and earned your academic achievements. Please describe the factors that have most influenced you and your hopes and dreams. How have they shaped you? (500 words max.)"
STEM changed my attitude for study
I am an Egyptian student who was born in Giza. I lived peacefully with my family since I was young and my loving parents have taught me a lot of things and their main hope was to have a clever, respectable son. As I am the elder one among my two brothers I have taken the most care.
The first hope I have put when I was young that I want to be the best. I have always been the first among my friends in all the exams and tests. I have always wanted to be better than any other person. Maybe the main reason is that I wanted my parents to be proud of me.
Until grade eight I hadn't had any other hope in my life I only wanted to get high grades and have a lot of academic achievements. In eighth grade I have realized that life isn't only about academic achievements, I also needed to have friends to talk to and go out with, so I have started to work on this goal and I have succeeded being sociable especially after working in a jewelry shop which helped me communicating with many people.
In the ninth grade I have started the year badly and didn't want to study but a teacher of mine talked to me and told me that what I was doing is wrong and I can't prefer having friends upon my studies and academic life. She convinced me to study hard especially this year after knowing about STEM school. STEM is a scholarship given by the USAID to the young leaders. This was my new hope that I wanted to enter this school. It required me to get 98%+, I studied hard and had a challenge with a friend of mine. Finally, I have got 100% which was a surprise for all my friends and family.
I have entered the school test with 3500 students who wanted to enter the school. Some have taken many courses in order to know the type of the questions but I didn't because I didn't know. The entrance exam consisted from 4 parts math, science, Arabic, and IQ. I have informed that I was accepted and this have totally changed my life. After entering the school I have developed many other dreams and hopes which I am working right now to achieve.
The main dreams I have now is entering biomedical school in USA or Germany. So I am preparing to enter the SAT exam in October. Also, I am studying German in order to take the FIT test.
The main factors affected me is my family at first, my teachers who helped me along my academic and encouraged me, my friends especially that one who encouraged me to enter STEM, and also the extracurricular activities I have participated in.