Cain’s (age 17) undergraduate college entrance essay
My father died last year. So it’s just been intermittently me and my mother. ‘Intermittently’ because my older half-brother only visits on break from college and my younger sister doesn’t live with us anymore. I am not mentioning this as a cheap sympathy plea. I have enjoyed plenty of well-meaning sympathetic favors in the last year. My father’s death is somehow related to a 500 word college entrance prompt. He had this way of working himself into almost everything. And his death is sort of still related to almost every aspect of my life. If truth be told, the reason for why I want admission to this particular program is a bit sappy and maybe unintentionally pulling for the sympathy vote.
I think my father always wanted me to follow him into military service with the Covenant. He never said it directly, and I suppose I will never positively know. He ensured that I went to the Covenant-sponsored military academy from primary through high school. He introduced me to all the right people to know at the military university two years ago. My entire extended family on his side attended the Covenant University, except for him. So I think it was really important to him that I attended. He was obviously grooming me for that path.
Needless to say, he was disappointed when I joined the track team instead of ROTC. He didn’t show any emotion when I told him, though. But he stopped giving me Covenant history books to read. Maybe this does not sound like much, but I did value his desire to shape me. And all of that stopped when I started to diverge from him.
He stopped asking me to speak with the Covenant wigs. He stopped encouraging me to do anything that only he was interested in. He even let me drop the Covenant combat elective taught by one of his best friends so I could take music history instead.
I think things were getting better before he died. I placed 1st in my tri-region division on the 10K meter. He didn’t show any emotion when I told him. But he attended the next meet and saved the school paper clipping about my placement.
I told him I was considering majoring in biology as an undergraduate at a public university. He didn’t show any emotion but asked me why. He gave me the opportunity to tell him that I actually liked volunteering at my uncle’s hospital (which started as a punishment) and that I wanted to be a doctor. After that he started questioning me about my performance in chemistry and calculus.
After he died, I regretted not taking a greater interest in the things my father wanted for me. But I think he was beginning to accept that I wasn’t supposed to be another him. So instead of accepting the legacy admission to the Covenant University, I’m applying to the Undergraduate Biology Fellowship program at Morous Capra University because that’s what I want and he seemed to be increasingly okay with me having the things I wanted for myself. Even if they were not necessarily what he envisioned for me.
I think my father always wanted me to follow him into military service with the Covenant. He never said it directly, and I suppose I will never positively know. He ensured that I went to the Covenant-sponsored military academy from primary through high school. He introduced me to all the right people to know at the military university two years ago. My entire extended family on his side attended the Covenant University, except for him. So I think it was really important to him that I attended. He was obviously grooming me for that path.
Needless to say, he was disappointed when I joined the track team instead of ROTC. He didn’t show any emotion when I told him, though. But he stopped giving me Covenant history books to read. Maybe this does not sound like much, but I did value his desire to shape me. And all of that stopped when I started to diverge from him.
He stopped asking me to speak with the Covenant wigs. He stopped encouraging me to do anything that only he was interested in. He even let me drop the Covenant combat elective taught by one of his best friends so I could take music history instead.
I think things were getting better before he died. I placed 1st in my tri-region division on the 10K meter. He didn’t show any emotion when I told him. But he attended the next meet and saved the school paper clipping about my placement.
I told him I was considering majoring in biology as an undergraduate at a public university. He didn’t show any emotion but asked me why. He gave me the opportunity to tell him that I actually liked volunteering at my uncle’s hospital (which started as a punishment) and that I wanted to be a doctor. After that he started questioning me about my performance in chemistry and calculus.
After he died, I regretted not taking a greater interest in the things my father wanted for me. But I think he was beginning to accept that I wasn’t supposed to be another him. So instead of accepting the legacy admission to the Covenant University, I’m applying to the Undergraduate Biology Fellowship program at Morous Capra University because that’s what I want and he seemed to be increasingly okay with me having the things I wanted for myself. Even if they were not necessarily what he envisioned for me.
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