Becoming A Pediatrician Scholarship Essay

“I didn’t think I could do it, but then I looked at what you were doing and I realized I could,” a friend sheepishly told me as she showed me her acceptance letter to a local college. My heart swelled with pride for her. I engulfed her in a bone crushing hug as the weight of her words washed over me. I could list a lot of moments the relate to my future goals. I could talk about awards won and accomplishments gained. It isn’t pieces of paper that tell me how smart I am that I am proud of. It isn’t statistics like being president of our senior class or one of the largest service clubs in my school that I hold onto. It is moments like the one with my friend. It is moments like the year before when I many days and late nights helping a friend with his scholarship essays because we knew that if he wanted to go to the big university he had his heart set on, he had to find a way to pay for it. His hug on graduation night, after he knew that his dream was becoming a reality, is one I will never forget.
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Yet, though I have done everything in the classroom and community to prepare myself for higher education it seems that many days I am still falling short of the goal. Higher education is expensive and when I see my father putting in the hours he does to support us I get worried that I’m never going to be able to do enough. I will be responsible for paying for my education “What if I can’t make it,” worries a part of me every single day. The Hutch’s Scholars Award will help me in furthering my education. It will help alleviate some of the worry on how I will pay to go to college. Most importantly, it will show me and those around me that there are people who still believe in kids like me. There are people who still believe that the girl from Western Oklahoma can go on to make a difference in this