Question

statement explaining why you are the first in your family in pursue higher education (with at least 300 words) Nursing student

Answer 1

Ans) Being a first-generation college student means that you are the first person in your immediate family to attend college–ie: neither of your parents have a college degree.

- There was so much pressure. My family expected me not only to go to college, but to be admitted to a prestigious one on a huge scholarship.

- My older brother dropped out of high school and was forced by our mother to return and graduate so college was a stretch for him, to put it generously. They poured all their immigrant hopes into me, to prove to themselves the move to the United States was worth all those years of uncertainty and hardship.

- Being a first-generation college student means accepting you will do a lot of things without help, such as filling out financial aid forms or arranging campus visits, because parents don’t know the first thing about applying to college.

- No money at disposal, so learned to be resourceful and hunt for scholarship contests to enter or check out SAT practice books from the library. It means cutting school in the middle of the day to write the application essay burning a hole inside you.

- Yet if the path into and through college was straightforward, I wouldn’t have developed the tenacity that has served me well in my adulthood. As stressful as it was worrying about where to find the money to pay for college or holding my own among moneyed peers who lived on Park Avenue, the self-reliance I built means even more to me than the degree I earned.