Scholarship Criteria
At a minimum, please ensure you answer the following questions in your statement:
- How are you experiencing personal or socioeconomic hardship and how that affects your ability to achieve your academic and professional goals?
- How are you demonstrating your high academic achievement or potential (and commitment to your secondary studies)?
- What are you motivated to achieve academically and professionally, including what you intend to study at university?
- How do you intend to make the most from the Harding Miller Education Foundation scholarship
As an immigrant family we are struggling. My mum has been constantly working hard, in order to financially support three kids as a single mum. Even then, resources are limited. My single mum can’t afford to send me to tuition nor pay for internet. All four of us share a single laptop. I share some textbooks with my peers as well as spend hours at the library after school to study.
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Getting into Nossal wasn’t a walk in the park, I had to burn midnight oil. Without any tutoring this was a challenge, especially when my peers were attending 3 tuitions on average, while I self-educated myself. Getting accepted into Nossal was just a milestone in my career. Another one of my achievements is being part of a SEAL program at my school for high achieving students. In this program, my studies are accelerated a year ahead therefore on all my reports and tests I get marked on a year nine standard. I have been participating in academic competitions like ICAS, Maths Olympiad, Australian Mathematics Competition since grade three. I love accepting challenges and proving my capability.
Asides from my achievements, I’m truly passionate in the medical field. My ultimate goal is to become a neurosurgeon to serve the community. I have a passion for Science and Maths, hence I want to study Chemistry,Biology in VCE along with Specialist Mathematics and Mathematic Methods. In order to get admission in a renowned university, I’m aspiring to get 100% for my VCE ATAR
The HMEF scholarship will offer me the resources I need to succeed. I intend to make the most out of this scholarship by using the resources provided to the fullest. In order excel, I need extra resources besides the course books instead of relying on the library. With the provided internet access and state-of-the-art technology, I can study at home. The career and subject selection advice will help me to know the best way to approach my career. Not to mention, the tutoring and coaching support will assist me on subjects I’m weaker in like English as it is my second language as well as to study difficult subjects in VCE.
Transitioning to a new school can be costly. Not only will this scholarship financially help me and maximize my potential, but also be a launching pad to motivate and propel my success. Instead of worrying about costs and expenses, I can focus on my studies. This scholarship will be an investment on myself, which I will give back to the community.
I appreciate your consideration.
In the future, I hope to pursue my dream of becoming a neurosurgeon. I intend to study at a renowned university, where I anticipate to become extremely involved with the student community. I am greatly influenced from my maternal uncle from Canada who is working as a neurosurgeon.
As Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. I absolutely agree with this. As a migrant coming from a third world country, I know health is priority. There is always a deficiency of doctors. With my education, I can help serve the community and improve the quality of life for countless families to come.
My main interests out of school are tennis, learning a language, cooking and running. I’ve always been passionate about tennis. At a certain stage, I refused to continue tennis training to alleviate some pressure for my mum. Fortunately, I was offered a tennis scholarship. Every Saturday, I attend language classes at VSL. I’m also very fond of cooking, our school held a Master chef program which I came second in. Another interest of mine is running. At my primary school I came first in cross country and fourteenth in district cross country. Besides this, I participate in cultural dance programs held by our community at different occasions. I also learn ABACUS and got distinguish but due to family circumstances I was not able to continue it.
My interests have given me the resilience, work ethic, and tenacity to develop as a person.
My family is an immigrant family from India. My mum is single, and she does not have any support. My mum work casually as a teacher. She has dispute with my dad and are ongoing cases in court. My dad is very mean to us. He does not allow us to travel overseas for holidays and we are on watchlist order. Facing family issues, my mum finds hard to concentrate on her career.
It is a tough time for my family. My mum has been on antidepressants for a long time. Being eldest it is also my responsibility to take care of my family.
I have several interests. Due to my family circumstances I am not able to pursue these. Like I was very keen to learn ABACUS. I attended the course for 6 months only. I passed the first level with distinction but due to financial hardship I couldn’t continue it. Still I would like to continue it. I can’t attend extra coaching classes as my peer do. This year I was unable to purchase my Japanese books. Even though I share the Japanese books with my friends and borrow resources from the library, I find myself falling behind in Japanese.
During studying for select entry school, my mum couldn’t afford tutoring. Fortunately for me, my peers were kind enough to lend me some of their resources.
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