UCF Scholarship Essay

UCF is our future, UCF stands for opportunity. I choose to apply to UCF because it has always been my dream ever since I could remember that I wanted to go to the University of Central Florida. I have wanted to go to this University because I know that at UCF I will be able to fit in anywhere and be able to count on someone always. The diversity of clubs is amazing, the good causes that UCF as a whole participates in for different organizations such as Knight-thon or UCF Giving Tuesday for helping the community is what I love doing. I do believe that UCF stands for opportunity and is the future, that while I’m in my 4 years I will see different opportunity in class, in clubs, an in the diversity around campus. There is opportunity everywhere

You have to keep fighting, pushing and striving. My first 2 years of high school were great for me. I made good grades to get pass by and I didn’t stress a lot. I was not the best student but I was that student in every class that had tried and fought her best. Then it was the summer before my junior year, when my sister had gotten sick and spent most of the summer in the hospital and the first half of my junior year in bed. The stress started piling up. I would go to school do as much as I can and come home to help my parents take care of my sister. Doing homework was getting less and less for me. I had gotten a job to help support my family, it was only a weekend job so I never missed school. I started talking to close friends and family and they helped me get back on my feet. I joined student government and also started to volunteer more, I stated to do what I loved the most, and that was helping my community. I can contribute to UCF because I know what it feels like to struggle and have no hope, I am that student that will be able to help and talk to anyone on campus who needs it. UCF will be able to help me start fresh and become the best I can be, it help me become my