College Admissions Essay: Why I Want To Attend University

So, what college are you going to? At times, this seems to be the only question family members know how to ask. As the precocious child that I was, my family loved to hear my response at as young as four years old. At that time I would just ramble off a university that I had previously heard, everyone would get a kick out of it, and then we would move onto whatever we were previously doing. As I've gotten older, the weight of that question has become heavier. At times, it seems as if everyone around me already knows which school they are going to. I have always known that I wanted to do something with medicine, but it was still a challenge because I felt like at seventeen years old, the world was asking me “what do you want to do with your life?”
The first aspect of this college that caught my eye was the fact that it has a pre-health advisor. I aspire to one day become an obstetrician/gynecologist. Being far from home, it is helpful to know that there is going to be someone on campus with the resources to help me get to where I want to be and someone who relates to my current situation. Going into a medical profession is a long journey in its own right, and having just graduated high school and entering the “real world” for the first time does not make it any easier. This advisor, along with the opportunity hub and career center, would keep me on the right