February 22, 2010Re: Craig Dickinson Memorial Scholarship
Dear Members of the Scholarship Committee:
Please consider my application for your esteemed award. I know only a privilege few will be weighted heavily, and I compose my letter with the gigantic hope that you will review my application with the greatest of foresight.
As a homeschooler from 1st grade to 10th grade, I was lucky to receive a first class education from my remarkable parents. I began my home schooling program since the public school system intended to penalize me one grade from promotion because my birth date was technically a few weeks away from their “austere” cutoff period. In addition, my younger sister suffered from pulmonary lung disease and my parents wanted her at home to personally supervise and administer her daily medications. Not to mention the fact that homeschoolers are free from the many sins that plagues the public school system. It is my humble opinion, that a public education is counterproductive to producing a holistic approach that fortifies a strong mind, body, and soul experience. My home schooling upbringing has taught me to be patient, attentive, studious, and discipline, while providing me with unparalleled excellence in reading, writing, math, and the sciences.
Because the public school system was unwilling to allow my parents to indulge in their schoolroom curriculum, thus refusing us access to technical books and materials, my parents had to design a specific study regiment that was tailor-made for my home study program. As such, grade 1 through 6, I was focused primarily on learning from the noteworthy, “What your 1-6 graders needs to know” book series. This educational serial was more than adequate for learning through grade 6th, and presented plenty of challenging lab experiments and course materials to supplement the other math and reading assignments my parents felt necessary to augment my learning experience. In fact, my parents required regular readings from our library of more than 75+ works of classical literature, such as, Little Women, Oliver Twist, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, etc. These books were not the condensed or watered-down versions, but true originals as intended by their authors from conception. To this day I still continue to read these great works of literary masterpieces on a regular basis.
However, by grade seven, I had to find new sources of educational inspiration, and my parents decided that completing the Pre-GED course assignments would present enough of a challenge to arouse my intellectual prowess. Within one year I was able to complete the entire math, writing, reading and science curriculum. All this at the seventh grade level!
Having completed the entire Pre-GED course sequel, and with no public school assistance to supplement my homeschooling education, my parents were once again faced with the dilemma of what to teach me in the eight grade. Luckily, they had the foresight of challenging me with the obvious next step to the Pre-GED sequel, and that was the preeminent GED. I completed the entire GED course curriculum in my eight and ninth grade, and finished two complete practice tests that were taken under similar exam conditions. What was remarkable in this venture, is that I was only 14 years old at the time, and I had studied the entire public school curriculum that was reserved for the more mature and experienced adults. In fact, my parents consulted with the GED testing authorities and pleaded with them to grant me permission to sit for the GED examination, but they refused do so on the grounds that I was underage and handicapped by my tender youth.
With nowhere else to turn, and having completed my GED studies, which was equivalent to the entire high school course syllabus, my parents were once again confronted with the daunting task of finding me fresher educational challenges. This ultimately led to my focus on the PSAT and subsequently the SAT examinations, since they were necessary prerequisites to qualifying for the Bright Futures Scholarship Award. By the 10th grade and then only 15th years old, I successfully passed the SAT with an outstanding score of 1,660 (see attached).
Having completed the SAT with a remarkably high score relative to my peers, I literally had an extremely good chance at acceptance to almost any first-class private university of my choosing. Instead, I applied and was accepted Fall 2009 to Broward College at the tender age of 15 years. The admission official stated that I was quite possibly the youngest person to ever attend their college. I have since completed, and in the process of completing, 15 credits, and plan on taking 9-12 credits this summer. I currently have a 4.0 GPA, and I expect to graduate next summer with a major in Biology. Once I graduate with an AA in Biology, I plan to sit for the Medical School Admission Test (MCAT) before I am accepted as a junior at Florida Atlantic University. Ultimately, my major goal is to apply to FAU School of Medicine before my 19th birthday!
Why do I deserve this scholarship?
Unquestionably, my academic excellence is unrivaled by almost any Florida public, private or homeschool students that I am aware of. Acceptance at a major Florida public college at the tender age of 15 is a remarkable achievement by any standards. Throughout my annual evaluation by a certified broward schoolteacher, I always scored at least 2 grades above any of my peers. My continued volunteerism at the Broward Public Library is a testament to my dedication to public service. Although I have completed the 75 hours of volunteer service required for the Bright Futures Scholarship almost 1 year ago, I still continue to actively dedicate 4-6 hours every week of my free time to the Northwest Regional Public Library.
On a more personal note, this scholarship award will be money well spent on a new computer and other necessary school supplies. Although, my parents had purchased a new computer as a gift for my outstanding achievement for gaining acceptance to Broward College, our home was unfortunately burglarized and my beloved Macbook computer stolen. In addition, I would like a laser printer for homework assignments, a voice recorder to tape classroom lectures and a digital camera to capture science lab experiments, not excluding my overall college experiences.
Furthermore, I believe that my tenacity, dedication, and unusual academic achievement will dispel any myth, if any exist, that homeschoolers lag behind anyone receiving a top-notch public education, or private training for that matter!
Yours with high hopes,
Alana S
Proud Student of Broward College
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