<p>Well a history of my high school career is that prior to high school I was a pretty religious person. Did everything a normal Muslim did. However, once High School started I got introduced into the world of sex, drugs, and alcohol. I started to get tempted by all these things and I started to move further and further away from my faith to the point where I started to question the existance of God. I started thinking that maybe everything was true, Islam is a religion of violence. My grades started to tumble from an 89 GPA freshman year to an 88 Sophmore year. The only things that slightly saved me were the high amount of honors courses I had on my schedule. Well I went to Hajj and I was just moved. Things started to click. I saw people of all races, black, white, asian, etc, uniting towards a single goal. It was a beautiful experience for me. Things started clicking and I came back a more focused person. I stopped underachieving, I had underachieved not only in terms of academically but in my sports too. I came back, worked as hard as I could, became a day one starter on the football team and my GPA skyrocketed to about a 96 for my Junior Year. I also started to become highly involved in my Mosque. I volunteered to be an assistant teacher and helped teach 3rd graders Islamic History. I also helped establish a newspaper for my local mosque and helped start some fundraisers that raised a lot of money for the mosque. </p>
<p>Like I said, if that is too cliche or risky then I will certainly write about something else. But do note that I am planning to apply to a lot of Jesuit schools, and Boston College is my number one choice. I'm not really sure if being so religious will help me or if the fact that I'm not Roman Catholic will hurt me. I would help start some Muslim clubs in college too if there are none present.</p>