Scholarship Personal Statement

Growing up, my family and I have struggled financially. My brother and I are twins and my mother is a single parent. With this scholarship, I hope to achieve a chance at getting a college education to not only help me advance in life, but also to be one of the first in my family to get a college degree.

As a child, I struggled to learn to read during my 1^st and 2^nd grade years when I finally discovered Dr. Seuss. Fast forward to my senior year and I have an insatiable love of classic literature. English has been the most stable and constant thing in my life. I have never felt more content than when I am studying and reading literature.

Reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee helped inspire my love for classic literature. Her ability to place you in the story opened my eyes with the content it produced and inspired a lot of my writing.

Leonardo DaVinci received no formal education beyond basic reading, writing and arithmetic, yet he achieved many great things in his life. Leonardo is a great inspiration to me and I believe that by furthering my education I can also aspire to do great things.