Educational Foundation Scholarship

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As one of the recipients of the 2015 Educational Foundation Scholarship recipients, I want to express my gratitude and appreciation for the opportunities this scholarship provided for me. I am grateful to receive this scholarship and reap the benefits that this scholarship provided for me and my family. Thanks to the scholarship I received from the Educational Foundation, I was able to spend a successful semester studying Biology and Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The scholarship helped lift a financial burden of my family because it helped pay for my tuition and housing. Having that financial security allowed me to have an accomplished and well-rounded first semester in college.
Due to this scholarship’s assistance, I have been able to devote time and energy to achieve academic excellence. For example, I was able to finish the semester with a 4.00 GPA in the University Honors Program, and I received the Dean’s List Presidential Honors Award. Additionally, I have also been active in my school and community by becoming a research assistant in a clinical research lab testing HIV patients and a peer educator for UAB’s Student Health and Wellness Center. I am also on the editorial and review board for Sanctuary Literary Journal. Moreover, I am in the process of publishing an …show more content…

I hope my college experience will embody service and education for others. This desire is what I want to carry with me as I pursue medical school. This scholarship makes medical school more possible and tangible because having this scholarship relieves my family from debt during my undergraduate years in school. Renewing this scholarship will offer me the opportunity to serve my school and community with same amount of diligence and hard work I have committed during my first year of college. With this scholarship, I can continue to alleviate the financial burden on my

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