My Accomplishments In Middle School

It is an honor to be selected as a candidate for the St. George’s National Honor Society. I have been working toward this opportunity for many years. I understand how many doors this will open for me by introducing me to better colleges, better jobs, and a better life. I believe I am fit for a position in this organization because I serve my community, exhibit leadership, and demonstrate outstanding character.

As I traveled through each grade of the Croton-Harmon High School, my personal and academic goals helped to me to really flourish. These goals may have varied from year to year because a freshman is a little different from a senior, but they basically had all the same concept: I wanted to strive in school to be the best all-around student I could be, constantly stay focused and immerse myself in the Croton community. By setting my expectations and goals very high, I could flourish academically and really work to my full potential.

During elementary school, I rarely struggled with the difficulty or workload. When I tested in and attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School for 7th grade, I was soon overwhelmed by the stress and workload. Because of how independent I was in grade school, I struggled with figuring out how to lessen the stress and deal with it. I rarely approached my parents, because of their lack of knowledge about my coursework. Even though my grades began to drop, I continued to believe that I could handle it on my own. After 7th grade though, I learned from my mistake, which was not knowing when or how to ask for help. When I entered 8th grade and then high school, I was committed to working with my teachers to ask them for assistance with subjects I struggled with. I polished my time management skills and studying

Many immigrants came to this land of prosperity and the land of freedom to give their kids a better life and education. “ I brought you to this country now, do something with it.” (from the article The American Dream Lives On by Yasmina Shaush). I understood this quote because my parents also brought my siblings and myself to get a better education and I plan to do so, to make them proud.

My favorite quote from Jackie Robinson is, “above everything else, I hate to lose.” That perfectly sums up my attitude towards grades, and for me, any final grade below 90, is losing. Using determination and commitment, I was able to win, and not lose, in the first semester of my freshman year.

I aspire to emulate the moral convictions of Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A. Truett Cathy never compromised his morals for his own success. His restaurant franchise has succeeded operating only six-sevenths of the time of his competitors. This is due to his commitment to keeping the Sabbath. I see this level of commitment in myself. I never take a shortcut that will compromise my morals. Instead, I work for my success the hard way. Last year, I found myself in a class where a large majority of my peers would cheat on quizzes and tests. I worked hard studying my notes and reading my textbook, and fought to make grades similar to theirs. My instructor would curve our quizzes and tests, so it was devastating when there was material

My parents moved from Colombia to the United States before I was born. I am apart of the first generation in my family that was born here. My parents moved with the single hope of giving me a better life with more opportunities. Having this background has definitely impacted my life in both trivial and meaningful ways. For instance, my father not being able to break through the language barrier has been an integral part of my lifestyle. He has been living in this country for a while now, but has never picked up English fluently. This led me to become his translator for as long as I can remember. Even today I accompany him to his workplace to help close deals and talk to contractors. This was but one of many examples of how my Hispanic background

Where do I begin? I am Wesley Tanh, an 8th grader currently enrolled at Julia R. Masterman Middle School. As an 8th grader, I have the option to enroll to 5 High Schools; one of which will be the school I attend for the next 4 years. One of these schools - not to mention, my first choice - is Central High. In the past years at Masterman, I have only received 2 Bs on my final grade. As a result of my grades, I was given the opportunity to progress a year up in math studies. Since the school’s curriculum already sets their students a year ahead, this places me in a 10th grade math level a.k.a. Algebra II. When you look at my PSSA percentiles, you will glady notice that I am in the 99 percentile for both English and Math. I have also been assessed with the Keystone Exams, passing at an advanced level. Not to be cocky, but I think I’m kind of amazing…Moving on.

I am going into the seventh grade and I have a lot of worries. Even though I have been going to Claymont my whole life I still many worries for seventh grade.

Since I was little my family always wanted me to become a great “lady”. Many times my family holds me back from being myself. For example, I’ve always want to play soccer, but my parents said it was non lady like. There were many struggles that occurred growing up as a female. For instance, many of my girl cousins, and I didn’t have so much freedom as the guys in the family mainly because we were “girls”. Suddenly I got tired for all the unequal rights we had at home. Eventually I stopped caring of what my parents thought of me. I ended up joining soccer to prove to my family that not only guys can do sports. Later on, I started comparing myself to the guys in the family, and proving that my parents everyone is equal. The inequality I had in my family made

Sara Sampson, my mother, or my friends like to call her “my twin” was born in 1960. In my mother’s family, she felt like she was expected to not be a disappointment and to finish college and be able to take care of herself. Not only did she have a

I have a lot of people tell me that I will never make it to college. They see my grades; they see my involvement in after school activities, and then they tell me to get ready to start looking for a job in the work force because that is all I will be able to achieve. I realize that these are huge indicators for college acceptance, but I feel that I have more to prove. I have an unreleased potential that only college will be able to show me. I want the level of difficulty that college provides. I want college to knock me down a few times, to ultimately tell me to quit and that I will never make it. I'm ready for endless nights of studying, and racking my brain to memorize the formulas for that physics test that I forgot all about. But you know what, at the end of the day, I will have shown everyone that I have been able to achieve what others thought was inconceivable

What happened was that my dad always gets the mail and since he saw it he opened it and he saw my grades. In a way I knew he wasn 't going to like them because it wasn 't what he wanted because he at least wants me to have passing grades. Then we was not to happy because it wasn 't what he expected from me. Yes in a way I feel bad because I didn 't meet my parents and my goal to have passing grades. The other thing is that they don 't know how much I try to pick them up and what I did pick up because certain teachers would have a due date to when all the assignments are due . Then since it 's so obvious that I can 't make those up I had other classes that had low grades.

At my school being number one is at the top of everybody’s list. Whether it’s number one in sports, number one in grades, or number one in the lunch line, everybody wants to be first in something. My section was grades, and I was almost number one; but then I met a subject called PreCalculus.

I believe in working hard to achieve my goals even if they seem impossible. Freshman year, my number one priority was acing math class for once. My eighth grade math class- Algebra 1, was a little rough. It was the bumpiest road I’ve been on and I wanted to take