Undergraduate / PURSUIT OF MY NEW PASSION; REASONS -TRANSFER [6]

Please provide a statement (appr. 250-500 words) that addresses your reasons for transferring and the objectives you hope to achieve.

ESSAY
That was the first time midnight saw me, my mother and my siblings awake. Our sleep had been halted by the news we had just heard over the phone. "Auntie Comfort in a motor accident; that can't be true", I murmured to myself. "Where is she right now", I asked my mother. "She is at the nearest Hospital, but awaiting medical attention as the hospital lacks the capacity to tend to all the injured passengers", she replied amidst tears. Sorrow crept into my spirit as I imagined my seriously injured aunty denied of medical care when she needed it the most.

What happened to my auntie is but one of the many ways several illustrious citizens, on whose shoulders the future of Ghana rested, have met death. People do not die because their conditions are untreatable, or because there is absolutely no medical care, but because trauma doctors are few and emergency departments are too out-of-date to handle the emergencies cases they receive. Already nurturing an ambition to enter the medical field, this experience further consolidated my medical dreams and placed on my heart a desire to work in the Emergency Room as a trauma doctor so that I could help obviate the deaths of many others who faced a similar fate.

**** University has given me a lot of exposures that have heightened my desire to serve as a trauma doctor. At the Metro General Hospital, my volunteer sessions at the emergency department have lent me some insight into the life of a trauma doctor and I love it thus far. My volunteer research experience at the Hughes-Kellogg Laboratory has given me a craving for biomedical research in cell biology. Taking cue from the classes I have taken, I have decided major in bioengineering as it incorporates my two favorites--biology and physics-in a next-to-perfect way.

However, the more my passions grow, the more I feel that another college can provide a program better suited to my career aspiration. My school can't nurse my newfound passion for bioengineering as bioengineering is not offered. The research project at the Hughes-Kellogg laboratory doesn't accept any more undergraduates as research assistants so undergraduates have to volunteer. But as volunteers, we are not given freedom to carry out any research undertakings so my academic experience is limited to the confines of my coursework.

A school, with a very strong bioengineering program, that actively prepares her pre-medical students for medical school will be of immense benefit to my dream. I seek a school that will offer me a variety of opportunities to actively participate in biomedical research in state-of-the-art laboratories, under the tutelage of renowned researchers. The school will satiate my new found thirst to research in cell biology whilst affording me the rare chance to learn under stellar scholars. These opportunities, complemented by a more challenging environment, will create the medley that best favors the realization of my dream.