University of Illinois at Chicago Application Essays

This past summer, I tutored two summer school math classes for incoming freshmen in my district. I’ve tutored dozens of students in my high school career, so when I was working with these students, I wasn’t expecting anything to be different. That’s why I was…

Hyperlexia. This is a term that very few people have heard of, but it is a term that I have become intimately acquainted with. Though it is shrouded in mystery, I have grown to know it frighteningly well, better than anything on this earth. I…

Throughout my short lifetime of difficulties and discouragements, education has been the one constant and one motivation that helped me stay positive. When my life seemed to be falling apart, I knew I could get on the bus, go to school, and enter a classroom…

“He smells like death.” A petite nurse muttered this to the physician as she left the patient’s room. When she saw me, she scrunched her face into an expression of embarrassment. Although I smiled back politely, a mixture of shock and apprehension whirled inside of…