NYU Personal Statement

Like my peers, I am in the process of formulating my future. My interdisciplinary interests of history, business, environmental sciences and mathematics transformed into a fascination with their intersection in practical urban planning, real estate, and business applications.

Academic competitiveness has evolved into striving to combine business’ cutting-edge discoveries with entrepreneurial management tactics, to promote promising products to markets. The aspiration to integrate an educational background in environmental science comes from a longstanding family background in real estate finance, and a related series of NYU classes where I explored how I can play a significant role in supporting environmental research as a venture capitalist.

My educational history has taught me that I thrive in small, interactive classes, with attentive classmates and consistent interface with dedicated teachers, who

EF Academy (EFA) fit as a distinguished IB-level international day/boarding school, with 98% foreign students, not far from my home and NYC. Offering combined advanced placement, International Baccalaureate, and NYS standard programs, with a range of intriguing topics, I chose classes of interest in my preferred learning style. I not only learned faster, but more accurately absorbed and retained the information, better preparing me for my future. There I became more independent. Once shy, I developed the confidence to step up to make an array of interesting friends and readily ask classroom questions important to me to broaden my knowledge, even though they may have seemed obtuse to my global peers. These experiential lessons led to my practicing public speaking by working in sales at a phone store. This was particularly significant as my transition from a once very quiet, introvert was complete when I exceeded not only my own, but everyone else’s sales