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Illinois
B.S., Aerospace Engineering
First-generation college student interested in engineering
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University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
Applied for a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
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In 1947, my grandpa moved from China to Cambodia, where he started a small convenient store. Two years later, he met my grandma and they started a family. They lived there happily for twenty years until the Cambodian Holocaust. The entire Tan family was forced to gather only a few belongings and escape on foot. They reached Vietnam, where they decided to settle and open a bakery. The bakery was a family business, so everyone was required to help. Besides working,...
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Recommended summer activities during high school and college15 WordsFind something productive to do...Why I declined other schools34 WordsFor me, financial aid and school location were large deciding...Why I ultimately chose my school14 WordsI ultimately decided to...How I chose schools to apply to63 WordsMany of the schools I applied to were through the QuestBridge program because I wanted to apply to schools...Whether I took out loans or applied for scholarships, and my advice28 WordsThe largest scholarship I applied to was QuestBridge....My advice about getting recommenders70 WordsAim for one math/science rec and one humanities rec because some schools specifically ask for that. Typically they should be...
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