Why I Deserve A Scholarship
Do I deserve ?!
The idea of obtain a scholarship, provoked me to think hard why I deserve this scholarship more than the others. However after careful analysis, I believe I really deserve it. Let me briefly summarize who I am and why I deserve this scholarship and then follow it with my argument.
My name is Jose Pereira.I migrated from Brazil to the United States of America in March, 2007. Although I found myself in a new complex world, with a challenging language I had to learn from basic, I believe I can face the challenge of achieving my career with my other spoken languages, portuguese and spanish. As well, I am a student who excels in my education. Because I have a grade point average (GPA) of 3.45, I am a member of the New York Public Library, I won the third place in the Brazilian Math Olympiad(State level) and also the tenth place in the Astronomy Olympiad(national level), during my high school. …show more content…
My mother decided to move to maintain me and my brother in a good school in my country but at the begginning was really hard, she did not know anyone in this USA and in the first year she had an income of $200 dollars a month. She did not have a place to sleep and thanks God, some people helped her offering a place to sleep. Today she has a better salary, and I also work(sometimes) but the money is not enough. This scholarship is very important to me, I want to make my mother pround of me, and make her see that everything she had suffer to give me a better education was not in vain. Whether I win this scholarship or not, I will keep studying, doing my best, to acquire the most of knowlodge I can, and also give her the life she
The idea of obtain a scholarship, provoked me to think hard why I deserve this scholarship more than the others. However after careful analysis, I believe I really deserve it. Let me briefly summarize who I am and why I deserve this scholarship and then follow it with my argument.
My name is Jose Pereira.I migrated from Brazil to the United States of America in March, 2007. Although I found myself in a new complex world, with a challenging language I had to learn from basic, I believe I can face the challenge of achieving my career with my other spoken languages, portuguese and spanish. As well, I am a student who excels in my education. Because I have a grade point average (GPA) of 3.45, I am a member of the New York Public Library, I won the third place in the Brazilian Math Olympiad(State level) and also the tenth place in the Astronomy Olympiad(national level), during my high school. …show more content…
My mother decided to move to maintain me and my brother in a good school in my country but at the begginning was really hard, she did not know anyone in this USA and in the first year she had an income of $200 dollars a month. She did not have a place to sleep and thanks God, some people helped her offering a place to sleep. Today she has a better salary, and I also work(sometimes) but the money is not enough. This scholarship is very important to me, I want to make my mother pround of me, and make her see that everything she had suffer to give me a better education was not in vain. Whether I win this scholarship or not, I will keep studying, doing my best, to acquire the most of knowlodge I can, and also give her the life she