Admissions Essay from an Ethiopian Student
I would like to thank the admission committee for considering my application. It is my sincere hope that you will grant me the opportunity to attend in your fine school.
Let me highlight briefly the background that would help why I would be the best candidate for your school. My name is unknown who was born and raised in Ethiopia. I left my country, and fled to Kenya interrupting my University education in 1993 due to worsen political turmoil in Ethiopia. I was granted asylum and considered political refugee and taken to refugee camp in Kenya. It was unbearable to live in loathsome and dreadful Kakuma Refugee camp for three years especially for ex-university student who had no prior experience in terrible and insecure environment eating malnourished food and spent the night in Tent .It was only for tough minded individuals that can survive and fit in the cursed land. In spite of the fact that it was unthinkable for refugee to plan for tertiary level of education living in that condition, I kept on searching a way out realize the dream .Three years later I managed to secure the scholarship through Windle Charitable Trust in Daystar University. Even if one assured scholarship and admission, it was hard to compete and graduate from the progaramme given the insecurity, home sickness, cultural differences, and so forth. Nonetheless, I was able to manage to be one of the top students in the first and second year. I was honored to be in dean’s list two times. I was encouraged and promised to maintain my success. Two years later, unfortunately I was depressed and adversely affected by bad news happened on family members back at home in the middle of 1998.Thus, I felt much insecure and failed to proceed my education effectively. Though I was advised a number of times to withdraw by my professors, I decided otherwise. Thus, My GPA was terribly affected and had shown sharp a downward trend. I was hospitalized two times and counseled for longer period of time and later recovered .As it is indicated on my transcript, later my GPA substantially improved and reached where it was before.
After the completion of the undergraduate programme, I joined masters’ programme in one of the best university in southern and east Africa, University of Nairobi, in Economics .I had special gratitude for German government who offered me the full...