CBU Personal Statement

Throughout high school, I’ve watched people in my life who struggled with school or their relationship with God become a different person after attending CBU. I never really understood how a university could have such a profound change in someone’s life, but that was until I experienced the campus for myself. All my life, I’ve struggled with my relationship with God, often growing to the point where I wanted to give up on it altogether. With age, my faith became more unstable and I wondered why things happened the way it did, and how God’s hand was in the midst of all the chaos I was experiencing in my life. On Spring Preview day, I experienced one of the most life changing interactions with God, one that permanently changed my relationship with him forever. For a long period of time, I had been drifting away from God. Ironically, that specific service was targeted on faith, and how it was easy to question something so essential to our relationship with Him. Despite going to church twice a week, that one single service inspired me to rekindle my faith in God. Through attending CBU, I hope to develop a closer relationship with God. I aspire to become a
Of course, they only wanted the best for me, so I followed their desires, applying myself to my studies. Academics have consistently been a focal point of my life, and I desire for it to remain that way, especially in college. As a student, I long to be filled with abundant knowledge in which I could apply to my career and life likewise. Through CBU, I hope to gain a degree and education that prepares me for my future. I desire to graduate filled with knowledge about the career I intend to pursue as well as a better understanding of God. Everything I’ve heard about CBU reinforces the idea that I can obtain these desires, which fills me with hope for my