Why I Want To Attend Rutgers University

As a New Jersey native, it has been a dream of mine to obtain a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New Jersey and be an active participant in the Rutgers University thriving culture. I had experienced the motivating campus lifestyle while visiting friends and relatives. This has been an inspiration for me to carve out my educational path to lead to Rutgers University. I am passionate, driven, and motivated by challenging myself. I wish to push my own limits, and feel that surface of my potential has just been scratched. When I graduated from Delran High School in 2007, I had these same positive and desirable attributes, but I was lacking in direction and purpose. It was an extremely stressful time for me as a teenager and young adult as my family and home life was deteriorating. My parents were in the midst of an ugly divorce, my father was a terrible alcoholic who would soon go on to lose his bread-winning job, our house was constantly under possible foreclosure, and I had two younger siblings to help take care of. I quickly found a full-time job and applied to take classes full-time at Burlington County College. I became overwhelmed with the “real world” responsibilities of providing for my family and

I re-enrolled into BCC switched my major and took some more challenging science courses in order to test and better prepare myself for future endeavors. I was able to achieve the Dean’s list back to back semesters and graduated in December of 2014. With an associates degree in one-hand and student debt in the other, I was now at cross-roads decision on whether to try to simply advance myself in the workforce with a liberal arts degree or press on to higher