USC: Pursuing My True Meaning In Life

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“If it’s meant to be it’s meant to be” was the refrain my parents told me when I received a thin letter from your institution, and they were right. If it’s meant to happen it will. I am appealing to your decision because I truly do feel that USC and I are meant to be. I feel an attraction so strong to your school--along with your programs--that I will take any opportunity to try and prove that I am the right choice. I may have not been the most promising applicant academically, but I have worked hard in other areas of study--areas that I am passionate about. As a student, I feel being passionate about a topic speaks much louder than a 4.0 or a 2400. Pursuing my true meaning in life is important to me. USC’s motto is to “Fight On” and I’m taking …show more content…

I focused so much time on how much I hated myself and how others felt about me that I left no time to focus on things of actual importance. I regret every day the time I spent in that cave of self-pity and loathing, and I wish that I could go back and change the past. But that can’t happen. So today I have overcome those demons and now no longer need the opinions of others to boost me and can say that I have better confidence in myself than I ever have. Last semester I had all A’s and am working towards the same goal this semester. I plan to retake the SAT for the third time this May, and have been preparing since January. I even created a program to reach out to youths through performing arts camps to help them realize the confidence they may not have known they had. Something I really could have benefited from at that age. Through this I have began to see priorities, and it is such a shame that these priorities never really occurred to me until this year. Even with this late realization, I feel that one cannot judge a person by the climb but rather by the fact that they reached the summit in the

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