How AVID Impacted My Life by Liliana Anahi
Liliana Anahi's entry into Varsity Tutor's December 2019 scholarship contest
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How AVID Impacted My Life by Liliana Anahi - December 2019 Scholarship Essay
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” – Helen Keller. Most times of my life I thought that I should do everything by myself, and thought, it was the key to succeed in life because nobody will do the things exactly how I want them to be. Now, that I am part of the AVID program I notice that everyone needs someone to support and motivate you to be better each day and achieve the success you are looking for. AVID has been helping my classmates and me in multiple ways, for example, to be prepared for college, helps students to be organized, also it provides many benefits such as being informed about scholarships deadlines, complete applications for financial aid and the most important thing that this program can provide me is the opportunity to achieve my dreams.
Many students are kind of nervous about what is going next after high school and the scary part is that they do not feel prepared for college. In this school year, I make the decision to join in this elective class and based on my great results, being part of this group was a wise decision. The AVID program has impacted me in a way that is preparing me to be a college-readiness student teaching us the WICOR strategies to make assignments look more easier. Thanks to my AVID teacher I am improved my strategies for taking notes and write essays for scholarship applications.
As I mentioned before, AVID implements the WICOR or Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and reading strategies to use them in different classes. Based on my own experience, AVID helps me to manage my time and my classes in a well-organized process and do things that I did not do when I was in 11th grade, for example, do a weekly grade check, take time to apply for scholarships or have an agenda to write important dates. As a result of these strategies, my grades have been improving, my assignments become more college-ready and also I learned things that I can use in my daily life.
Moreover, some benefits that the AVID program presents to its members are different methods to obtain financial aid to afford their tuition in a college. As you can notice, universities are very expensive but there are many ways to get money to pay for these school expenses, the most popular methods are to apply for scholarships and federal aid. From my experience, my AVID counselor gives us the deadlines to apply for scholarships and financial aid, also she helps us to complete our applications. This is very helpful because you never know how much money you can get for applying to scholarships and financial aid to afford your school dream.
As has been noted, joining the AVID program that La Quinta High School provides for its students was an excellent decision because this elective class prepare its members to be college-ready, provides different strategies that you can implement in your classes and life, and provides much information about scholarships and financial aid to afford your tuition in a college. I want to mention that without AVID I used to see very far my dream to attend college but now that I am an AVID member and with the all help that it is provided by my teacher and my counselor I see my dream more near than I used to.