High School Scholarship Essay

My life has certainly been an interesting one, one that I have had many experiences in through good and bad. I was born and raised in Milwaukee, and put into a school that I would later spend K4 through 8th grade learning at. For the free time that I have I like playing basketball, I have two sisters and I live with both my mother and father. I put lots of effort into everything I do, making me a very determined person. I will go into more detail of everything about me, but being an 8th grade student, I am very locked in on becoming successful, and getting past the 8th grade and moving up to the next step. Going up to the 9th grade, in high school, is currently my goal, and when I have a goal I am determined to accomplish that goal, and hopefully

And now, not much has entirely changed in my outlook for high school. I still see how it will be more challenging, how I will be pushed to be the best student that I can be. But also, now, I see that high school is a perfect fit for me. How my thoughts in 8th grade all lead up to what I want out of the 9th grade, a challenge. I want to be pushed to my greatest potential, I want to be given hard work, be forced to increase my managing skills, etc. Other than academics, though, I see that extra curricular activities increased in the 9th grade, and I have seen how important it is that I do them now, I may not be used to the variety though. I haven't been exposed to many extra curricular activities, especially in middle school, sports are something that I would be very interested in then, in high school. Other than sports related extracurricular activities. I would also be interested in things, including, computer programming, art, physics, and others of the sort. High school is also my chance to express who/what I want to be when I get older, from college