UC Personal Statement: Who Am I?

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UC Personal Statement Who am I? Is one of the many questions I constantly ask myself. For only being a 16 year old teenager, trying to explain who I am is quite tough. Every day my life unfolds a little more with new experiences, adventures, and valuable life lessons. Throughout the years I’ve come to realize that the people who have had a strong and extraordinary influence on my life are my family especially my mother. My mother had me in Mexico, which meant that just like her and the rest of my family, Spanish was my primary language. That was fine until my mother decided to come here to America. A year and a half after I was born,my grandparents came to America seeking

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Essay on High School and Test Scores

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Essay on Buad479 Semester Notes

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Research Methods

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BACKGROUND The United States has a quite different educational system than China. In China, there is not something like GMAT or GRE in the process of application. After the students pass the national exams for English politics and math, they will need to go through the major course test of the university in which they applied. Chinese students can just apply for one university’s master degree in the end of their senior year. However, if international students want to apply for master degrees…

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