ģ years later, I'm still duking it out - calc 2 and physics right now. I almost crapped my pants when I saw the requirements on ASSIST that I'd have to take (all of them), before Berkeley would even consider my meager accomplishments. Anyway, my mother helped me realize I'd have to go to a UC. It's a handful for us, and living at 'home' is my only option. My older brother is autistic and my oldest brother. I'm the youngest of three, my mother has lead us single since our father died in 1999. So I was kinda ****ed off about that, and applied to UNLV (my family has a house there) - due to many family issues, I ended up using a year to take care of things and. I had to take some community college classes in order to graduate on time (did it in 2.5 years!), but that screwed up my chances of going straight into a UC because the UC system prefers fresh AP kids that get college credit for never stepping into a real college class. I started out horribly in high school, and made that up in homeschool (graduated with a 4.0!) However I wanted to be an electrical engineer and my education included very little math (I went as far as intermediate algebra). īut while I think your advice is useful and a good mentality to have, I think in the correct and calculated context speaking of earlier years, including childhood and high school, can be very important if it has a direct link and explanation to all the great things you do now and aspire to do later on, especially with a college degree. This is one of the first things I try to convey to the homeless individuals taking classes on their way to a job at U.F.I.S.H.
And in complete agreement, I am completely against wallowing in self-pity, past failings or tales of woe begetting worry. I think this was the hard-nose attitude you were trying to convey. I tend to think pain is inevitable but suffering is a choice and in stark contrast to a sob story I believe any story with sadness that doesn't have the catharsis of a learning experience that allows us to do great things isn't even a story worth telling. įurthermore, the reason I care so deeply about the plight of the underprivileged is because my family and I were homeless for about a year when I was a child due to a lengthy and painful divorce process. I found my calling in high school and flourished it during the last 4 years founding another non-profit, After and sitting on the board and planning member committees as well as volunteering at many more around Los Angeles and San Francisco. This is because I founded my non-profit organization, U.-F.I.S.H., in junior year and purely wanted to improve my community, work with the homeless and be a philanthropist as opposed to going to school. įor example, I had a 3.92, 7 AP's and a 1490/1600 SAT in high school but decided to not apply to even one college much to the chagrin of my peers and elders. Read the latest data on family homelessness.I understand your advice, and it's well founded, but only insofar as whether high school experience is or is not a direct precursor to post-high school achievements.Review the Criteria and Benchmarks for Achieving the Goal of Ending Family Homelessness to see what it takes to end family homelessness in your community.Strengthening education outcomes for young children experiencing homelessness.
Strengthening housing solutions specifically for families.Recent federal, state, and local action has focused on: To prevent families with children from experiencing homelessness, and to make sure that when families do experience homelessness they can quickly regain permanent housing, communities need robust, coordinated systems, focused on shared outcomes. Government, public agencies and schools, businesses, non-profits, and philanthropy all have roles to play in investing in and driving solutions. Given its complexity, family homelessness is not something that any single agency, level of government, sector, or system on its own can solve.
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