I would like to express my deepest gratitude for this opportunity to apply for KGSP scholarship

Personal Statement for KGSP 2018

My name is Miracle Heart. Am a Nigerian student temporarily residing in South Africa.
Firstly, I would like to express my deepest gratitude for this opportunity to apply for KGSP scholarship.
I am a graduate of MSC Business college, East London, South Africa holding a FET certificate in Technical Financial Accounting which involves Computerized accounting.

Computers have held a long-life fascination for me. What started as an interest in just using them developed into a growing desire to understand how collection of simple ideas and elements can interact to produce an entity as complicated and cooperative as a computer.

Computers are becoming increasingly important in our everyday lives including the financial industry and I am excited that I could be in the forefront of the next generation of computer technologies. The decision to take computer science was therefore a simple one.

I was born in the city of Onitsha in the Eastern part of Nigeria as the 6th child of the family of 8.
During High School, I was drawn to the internet and how it works that I joined the computer club to have unrestricted access to computers. I was 13 years old when my father bought our first desktop computer. Since then my interest in computers grew deeply and I dreamed of becoming an important person in the field of computer.

I finally got closer to my dreams when I had to emigrate to South Africa to join my mother who is a missionary in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in her missionary work. South Africa unlike Nigeria were more advanced in Computer technology, so fueling my interest in computers got easier.

I started studying Technical Financial Accounting in Msc Business College been unable to pursue my dreams in Computer Science due to high academic bill required to study as an international student.

I volunteered as a Mathematics and Computer Science teacher in Squatter Camps and other needed places during the Missionary work but I worked part-time at a Computer Company (Metalite Pc Technologies) as a software apprentice to keep my dream on computer alive.

Coming from a family where my father is a business man who worked really hard to send his children to the best schools in the country, learning and diversification of skills was a family tradition. I for one learnt the skill of Arc welding, Aluminum windows and doors fabrication and when I had to relocate to Lagos to start my preparation and application to emigrate to South Africa to help my mother as a Christian missionary I also acquired the skill of Hairdressing, pedicure and manicure in a beauty salon closed to my residence.

While learning all these skills, I never lost sight of dream which was computers so i enrolled part-time in a computer school (Lord's concept academy) and had to work there also as a computer science teacher to junior school students to cover my tuition fees.

I am a very determined and self-motivated person and once I have set myself a goal, I strive to achieve it. I earnestly look forward to a promising career in the Computer-field and hope my studies at the university will be productive both to me and the large community which I am part of, as I believe it to be an extremely dynamic and versatile area of work, with many exciting opportunities.

I bring along an aptitude for teaching and team work, a zest for challenges and an enthusiastic desire to learn all I can. I would like to take with me, in addition to knowledge of computers, a network of strong and lasting relationships with my teachers and fellow students.

If awarded this scholarship, I know I can fulfill my aspirations and this scholarship will literally be the gift that keeps on giving. Furthermore, I believe that my studies would assist me in achieving these goals that I dream to make true in future at your foremost University.

Now I submit my application with full confidence in the hope of winning a favorable permit. I hope to encounter new opportunities, make new friends and rise to the challenge of becoming one of the best in world of computer technologies and a good representative of my Alma mater.

Many thanks for your kind consideration

Heart, I don't understand, are you applying for an undergraduate degree course or a masters degree course scholarship? A personal statement for the KGSP is required only of undergraduate scholarship applicants. The masters degree applicants are required to present a letter of self introduction in place of the personal statement.

There are semblances of the letter of self introduction requirements in this essay but it mostly contains non-related information. Having reviewed your opening statement at least twice, I feel that I should be assuming that this is an application for a masters degree course. In which case, you need to revise a major part of your essay because it doesn't contain all of the required KGSP letter of self introduction information. If you review the application packet that you downloaded or received, you should see that there is no Personal Statement requirement. However, you should have seen that the letter of self introduction (equivalent of the personal statement) should contain the following information:

o Your course of life, your view of life, study background, your hopes & wishes, etc
o Your education and work experience, etc., in relation to the KGSP program
o Your motivations for applying for this program
o Reason for study in Korea

Upon further review of your essay, you already have the draft versions of the first 2 required discussions, with a need to develop your education and work experience with the KGSP program. You do not have any reference to the last 2 parts in your essay so you should work on adding those 2 parts in your essay. Without those 2 elements, your essay will be incomplete and your application cannot be considered by the reviewer.

Actually am applying for undergraduate degree. The diploma i studied was just not to be idle as i couldn't afford to go to the university to study the course i really wanted