EOP Student Motivation Report

Coming from a Latino community, the dream of getting to college is limited. As years come more Latinos are getting enroll into colleges, but the story does not end there. Many struggle during their academic trip to get to their final stop of education which is their degree. They struggle because most Latinos are not economically stable. This is my story. I come from the country of Peru. Thanks to my father who made all the paper work, we met after many years of being distanced. When I started school here, I was urged to learn as much as possible because that motive of every Latino person in the states have to succeed. I did succeed. I was twelve when I got to New York City, I learned the language really fast, worked myself through middle school
I did not apply to anything fancy like IVY schools where I would just suck up all my money, but instead I applied to something decent. I would get a response three months later from University at Buffalo. The letter stated that I was not in the UB yet. Because of my financial needs I would get in through a program called EOP. The program consist in giving students a chance to make it into college with the condition of attending a three week session where proves their capability of college students. EOP students would give aid to cover some things because all EOP students where in financial need like me. I would go, finish the EOP program and finally get accepted into University at buffalo. The aid is not a full ride, but I covers some, the rest would be up to me, but I still wasn’t sure. I decided to go to college because it would mean so much to my family and to me because of the fact that the first member of the family to attend college would be me. I felt proud more than worried because I beat all the odds and because of the fact that I started from so far away. This scholarship gives me an opportunity to get to the final stop in my academic life, which is my degree in civil