<p>This is what I have so far for each prompt. Would love feedback, thanks!</p>
<p>Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?</p>
<pre><code>In many peoples opinions, success is a basic expectation. The difference between people, is the path you take to achieve the success you strive for. While some would and have fallen from the path that I myself have taken, my perseverance kept my goals in sight and more importantly my focus clear. I grew up in the city of Orinda since I was born, throughout school I was surrounded by familiar faces that dated back to preschool. It was during high school, at age 13, that my parents began their divorce. As a result my schooling was put on the back burner, home life became somewhat of a war zone and I inevitably fell behind. With my path just barely in focus I was enrolled into continuation school, the dreaded and unrevealed continuation school. Even though my perspective of this new school was so bleak, it lite a sort of spark in me, my gears were freshly oiled, and I began to think this was my second chance, I could start fresh and return to my path. I used this new opportunity to my advantage, my goals did not seem so unobtainable anymore, and I thrived. I would not become the drug user sitting next to me, or the kids planning where they would go after they ditched the next class. But I also was not the straight A student who lead 7 clubs like every student at my last school. This continuation school changed my life, and surprisingly for the better. I had never been exposed to a learning environment where kids actively and excitedly challenged their teachers. I was shocked at the lack of motivation and drive in so many of the students. These new behaviors I was experiencing reinforced the kind of student, and person I wanted to be.
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<p>What is your intended major? Discuss how your interest in the subject developed and describe any experience you have had in the field — such as volunteer work, internships and employment, participation in student organizations and activities — and what you have gained from your involvement.</p>
<pre><code>Caring for yourself is something that is natural, it is an inherited instinct. But caring for others is something that some possess, some do not, and others place secondary to caring for themselves. Me on the other hand thrives knowing the welfare of others is being fulfilled. During childhood my father, who worked as a social worker, would take me to several of his clients. There was a boy suffering from echolalia, a girl who could not have been over 90 pounds but saw a 200 pound girl looking back at her in every mirror, and the most intriguing to me was a teenage boy who chose not to speak. Even as a child, I remember myself wondering how to help, what could be done to restore their quality of life? Ever since my father exposed me to this world where people so altruistically helped others, I knew it was engrained in me to do the same. This is why my intended major is Social Welfare, and I hope to work specifically with youth.
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