Describe the most significant challenge you’ve faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this affected your academic achievement? Talking points I came up with include: d

Describe the most significant challenge you’ve faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this affected your academic achievement?

Talking points I came up with include:

 discrimination w/in the education system

 Discouragement from others w/n the community

Loss of family & friends

Living in an underserved & underrepresented community

All affected my poor choices in high school, why I didnt attend college out of high school,

 How it has shaped my current frame of thinking to be motivated.

(Sobrante Park, Oakland, CA)

(350words)