Common App Personal Statement · 643 words · · Admitted
Personal growthAcademic passionCommunity impactOvercoming a setbackFamily and backgroundPersonal challenge
Achieving highly, obtaining status, accumulating abstract monetary value—society glorifies this combination as the ultimate aim of existence and yet, there is no greater waste of intellectual and creative capacity. One day, one’s name will fade from the collective mind and that green paper will dissolve into dust. I desire to have a more meaningful existence. It is art, it is philosophy, and it is science which will leave a footprint in the sand of time. Money and power are little more than means with which to attain greatness. The most paramount basis of my endeavor is education. Throughout…
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