I’m Loving It A customer is screaming, I try to tune her out as I attempt to take the order of another customer, I say the usual line "Hi welcome to McDonalds would you like to try the new clubhouse burger," fortunately it's a quick order, unfortunately the angry customer is still there... From what I gather this all originated from not receiving bacon on her Bacon Cheddar McChicken even after all the attempts to remedy the situation my...

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School of Business

When I was younger, I loved to watch CNBC. I didn’t really understand what was happening; hundreds of numbers flashing through the screen, the kinetic and professional people talking about obscure concepts like TARP, (Troubled Asset Relief Program) the DOW (Dow Jones Industrial Average) plunging as the monthly unemployment figures showed hundreds of thousands job lost with everything happening within the beautiful background of the New York Stock Exchange. I only knew superficial knowledge of how our economy worked;...

Interviews are supposedly straight forward, they want to get to know the student behind the data. My Brown interview was amazing, the guy was a history major and we instantly clicked...

My dream was always to go to Harvard but I have always worried about money issues and didn't want to burden my family with any college money issues so one of my best friends suggested Questbridge. I started doing my research on Questbridge and despite not having Harvard as I partner school I decided that having a potentially guaranteed financial aid...

Penn was never my dream school but in September of 2014 they offered me something that completely changed both my mind and image. PEEP, the Penn Early Exploration Program was a fly in program and I was lucky enough to be accepted,...

Choose the teachers that you are the closest too. The ones you know have your back...

I'm a low income hispanic student that's high achieving and extremely involved in both my community and school. Lots of extra curriculars with passion in each of them and officer positions. Almost...