1) A maximum of 250 words, please explain Why you should be selected to receive a Shawn Carter Foundation Scholarship? 2) Personal circumstances: Please use this opportunity to share any personal circumstances that your would like us to consider when reviewing your application: (650 words)   Like many children of immigrants, I am invisible until you look deeper

1) A maximum of 250 words, please explain Why you should be selected to receive a Shawn Carter Foundation Scholarship?

2) Personal circumstances: Please use this opportunity to share any personal circumstances that your would like us to consider when reviewing your application: (650 words)

Like many children of immigrants, I am invisible until you look deeper. On paper, To many, my current state and place in society is overlooked and often unacknowledged, and with good reason. On paper there is nothing eye-catching about my achievements seem unremarkable. , I graduated high school in Houston, Texas and, I am a healthy woman (both physically and mentally), and by and, by the end of the school year, I will have completed my basics at Blinn college. These ‘bland’ milestones, however, and the bumps along the way, however insignificant they may seem, have significant tremendous importance to me personally. Every tiny success gave me more confidence to reach higher. Every person’s tenure on this earth comes with challenges, and to every person those challenges seem, at one time or another, to be insurmountable..… s, and my time here has and will be no different. The uniqueness then is not was Still, what matters is not the scale of hether a person’s life was easy or hard challenges, but rather how they face these dealt with the hardships. they faced. In the short time I’ve had been here, one trait has allowed me to overcome my unfortunate circumstances and persist: