I also believe that being an immigrant made my decision of attending to college more
challenging. I immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico when I was sixteen years old. Luckily I
spoke English, but my mom and I did not really understand how the school system worked.
Therefore, when senior year of high school arrived I did not really understand the process
of attending college. I did not know that I had to talk to a school advisor about attaining a
college education or find scholarships to pay for school. I had no knowledge of the types of
tests that I had to take like the SATs, ACTs, or even college assessment exams. However,
after researching this information online and meeting with college advisors, my mom and I
have learned all of these strategies that help students accomplish a higher education.
One of the first things that I have done in order to overcome the challenge of being a
low-income student has been looking for a job. As I mentioned before my mom works as a
hair stylist, but in order for her to maintain our house and pay the bills, she also cleaned
houses for elderly people in our community. Since she worked so much in both jobs, I