From Immigrants To El Salvador: Personal Statement

When people are young, they are always told, “your childhood years are some of the best years of your life so enjoy them while you can.” Children typically spend their hours watching interactive shows and playing with toy, yet I have a very hazy memory of doing those things. Coming from a deprived, immigrant family did not permit me to have this joyful childhood experience, but instead led me to grow up faster than customary and shaped me into the person I am today. My parents immigrated to the United States from El Salvador before I was born, leaving behind 5 kids, the youngest nine months and oldest thirteen years of age. Leaving behind their children was one of my parents’ hardest choice, but they believed that in the future it would have the best outcome. My parents had lived a dirt-poor life in El Salvador due to the Civil War that was going on the in the 1980s. They came to the U.S. in hopes of giving their children a better life, they put their all into their jobs until eventually they could bring my siblings to the United States for the better life every child deserves. Knowing this did nothing but show me that anything is possible if you work hard and strive for only the best. Although they worked hard in
Knowing that getting a good education for their kids was their first goal encouraged me to work hard in school. Every minute I have spent at Science Park High I have appreciated because I know it is an enormous privilege to get such an excellent education from many insightful teachers. This will also apply to college. Although my siblings all went to high school, they did not go to college and I saw it break each one of their hearts. This will inevitably push me to reach for nothing but greatness in college, to give it me 100 percent and nothing less no matter how hard it