College Admissions Essay: A Career In High School

There has been so many ups and downs in my high school years. After all the work I have put in through my four years being here, now it’s finally about to pay off. I am finally to the point where the work I have done in high school will lead me right into the school of my choice. I have long dreamt to pursue an engineering degree and now that I have worked so hard in high school, now I will be able to attend one of the top schools for engineering. I am so excited to see what my future has in store for me down the road with the level of maturity I have been able to grow into in high school. It’s surreal that the all the work that I have done is about to pay off in the long run. Even though I had a rough freshmen year, I am glad that I had that year just for the fact that my maturity completely changed. I went from being an awful student, barely passing my classes, to a student that hardly ever
I think that college has a lot to do with just your determination to get the grades you want, and I think I have been able to have the determination I will have to have. I have done a lot of growing up in my high school years and one of the main things I have learned is that I have to have the determination to get the grades that I desire. I have to be the one to work to get those grades because no one is going to give them to me.
High school has been quite an experience for me, as I feel that I have experienced all that I have needed to. Although I am so glad that senior year has arrived, now I am anxious to get the next step in life. I have things that I will regret in my high school years, but all in all it's been pretty good. I just have a hard time believing that I am about to go to college to pursue what I have wanted to do since middle school. I am ready to move on so bad to prove to my family that even though they didn’t go to college I can go and