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Monae Saelee - Personal Statement

I have taken advantage of educational opportunities like taking college classes in high school to get ahead and potentially graduate faster. Growing up in a challenging environment, I faced doubts about my dreams but was motivated to prove critics wrong and achieve my goals of becoming a lawyer. I overcame obstacles with determination and creativity, such as thinking of innovative solutions to problems or using my artistic side through business ventures. My greatest talent is perseverance - I am independently strong and motivated, having learned from a young age to push through hardships and stay focused on my ambitions.

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Monae Saelee - Personal Statement

I have taken advantage of educational opportunities like taking college classes in high school to get ahead and potentially graduate faster. Growing up in a challenging environment, I faced doubts about my dreams but was motivated to prove critics wrong and achieve my goals of becoming a lawyer. I overcame obstacles with determination and creativity, such as thinking of innovative solutions to problems or using my artistic side through business ventures. My greatest talent is perseverance - I am independently strong and motivated, having learned from a young age to push through hardships and stay focused on my ambitions.

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Personal Statement

1. Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity


or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced?
I have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity by enrolling in college
classes while in high school. I decided to enroll in Merced community college during the
spring semester of my freshman year. I took the opportunity I had to be in college while
in high school so I could potentially get my degree faster and be ahead of the game. I
have always been motivated to be something since I was younger and I knew no matter
what I absolutely had to succeed and that failure was not an option. I grew up in the
harsher side of Merced where there are people who are constantly on the streets,
engaging in gang violence, and where illegal activity may occur. Growing up seeing how
life was around me, I did not like it and wanted better for myself. Being in college and
high school at the same time allowed me to take charge of my future for the better to
eventually help me lead life in a better direction. I have high expectations of myself to be
the best I can and prove everyone that put me down wrong and show them how much I
can accomplish. I hope to become a lawyer in criminal justice when I am the age of
twenty three. The educational opportunity of enrolling in college while being in high
school I had the chance to do the majority of my college credits to receive an associates
degree while in high school. This allows me to do less time in college and become a
lawyer sooner than later enabling me to achieve more sooner and become successful at
a younger age.

2. Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have
taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic
achievements?
The most significant challenge that I have faced has been people constantly putting me
down and not believing in me. I grew up in a challenging environment around others who
would put me down for being myself and I always grew up having big dreams that
nobody believed I could achieve/live up to. I knew I wanted to be something great since
elementary school. So as I grew up being looked down upon, It made me realize how
much nobody's opinions matter but your own because at the end of the day it is you who
will have succeeded while others put you down out of jealousy. From a young age I
learned to be independent and to stay strong; it was other jealousy and hate towards me
that made me more ambitious to achieve the “unachievable”. This challenge affected my
academic achievements because the more I got told I could never get into schools like
UCLA because it would be hard and I could never achieve anything with that high of a
goal. This caused me to feel the need to reach that goal more than anything so I took
every opportunity I could to achieve the highest goals I set for myself. For example, me
taking college classes during freshman year.
3. Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem
solving, original and innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe
how you express your creative side?
I am creative in many ways, I am generally a very optimistic person who is always
thinking of ways to make something out of nothing. I constantly think of ways to solve a
problem or issue that is brought upon me and think of multiple solutions from each side
of the problem. Im consider myself to be a very open minded person so I take every
issue I face into careful consideration before making a decision. I constantly am thinking
of better solutions to everything that I do. Even if something is already good I try to find
ways of bettering everything in my life in order to have the most contentful and happy life
that I can. I am very ambitious and do everything I can in my power to make the most out
of my life and take all and every opportunity I have to become great. For example I
currently have and am starting a business as a nail technician while in high school and
have a part time job. I am doing the most I can to make money and afford my future
tuition and adult hardships.

4. What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and
demonstrated that talent over time?
My greatest talent by far is my perseverance to be independently strong and motivated. I
learned from a young age to persevere through the hardest times I may face and
learned to focus on what is most important other than little inconveniences that may
occur throughout life. Being independent is how I would describe my whole life because I
went through a lot of hardships growing up and even now that has shown me few people
will stand by your side during the hard times. I have demonstrated this talent over time
such as now by having a small amount of people around me that I trust and completely
believe they will be there for me no matter what. I continuously strive to be my best self
that I can be. I have learned to motivate myself through the strong times because in the
end no matter how hard life may be or get, if I stay motivated I can accomplish anything
that comes my way. I am an extremely ambitious person who takes every opportunity I
can get.

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