subfer1
.:fuck y'all:.
So, last year I applied for this exchange program that the US government is promoting over the world. It grants students a full ride and even paid flights so they can take either a semester or a year in the states. It was directed to students who came from lower and lower-middle class, to give opportunities to study abroad for students who were normally not capable to do so becuase of their economic situation. I applied through the US embassy here, everything looked perfect, they said my essay was the best of all of the ones among the applicants. But, right when the final selection was to be made, I was rejected.
When I asked on the reason, they told me that Washington's team had rejected me on the basis of me having worked my Freshmen year, because to them that meant that sudying was not my real priority, and also, becuase I had taking few courses earlier on and have taken longer to graduate and they value "eficiency". Well as I told the embassy cultural affairs agent, if I hadn't worked my Freshmen year, I wouldn't have been able to pay for school, and the following few courses I took were few, because they were all I could afford until I got the scholarhip I currently have.
I felt it was contradictory of them to reject me when they had already inquired on my reasons for working and taking few classes during that time and the program was supposed to be looking for people, like myself, that don't have the money to take such chances and pay for their tuition easily or for studies abroad. She felt terrible about it, and I could tell, and she even apologized and said she had been sure I would get it, but that it had been out of her power since she sent my application to Washington.
Well, I thought that was part of the past. However, earlier this year, she contacted me and told me of a new program, this one is for a month during the summer, taking seminars on US culture, how its changed and local cultural differences in some states. I would be sent to a random state, take general US culture classes, classes about the state I was in and then attend a conference in Washington the last week with all the other participants. I didn't want to apply, but she sort of convinced me, I had to write a new essay, which they loved, get a recommendation letter, which more than one of my profs readily offered, and turn in some info. Well, now they say I really got it. The thing is, I am still skeptical, I feel like any time now they're going to do like last time and tell me that it's off. Although, the seminars start on july 11, so there's not much time for them to change their mind, or is there?
I am getting my passport (I don't have one because I have never been to anywhere outside my country), but I still have that bad feeling that they might say its off all of a sudden...
When I asked on the reason, they told me that Washington's team had rejected me on the basis of me having worked my Freshmen year, because to them that meant that sudying was not my real priority, and also, becuase I had taking few courses earlier on and have taken longer to graduate and they value "eficiency". Well as I told the embassy cultural affairs agent, if I hadn't worked my Freshmen year, I wouldn't have been able to pay for school, and the following few courses I took were few, because they were all I could afford until I got the scholarhip I currently have.
I felt it was contradictory of them to reject me when they had already inquired on my reasons for working and taking few classes during that time and the program was supposed to be looking for people, like myself, that don't have the money to take such chances and pay for their tuition easily or for studies abroad. She felt terrible about it, and I could tell, and she even apologized and said she had been sure I would get it, but that it had been out of her power since she sent my application to Washington.
Well, I thought that was part of the past. However, earlier this year, she contacted me and told me of a new program, this one is for a month during the summer, taking seminars on US culture, how its changed and local cultural differences in some states. I would be sent to a random state, take general US culture classes, classes about the state I was in and then attend a conference in Washington the last week with all the other participants. I didn't want to apply, but she sort of convinced me, I had to write a new essay, which they loved, get a recommendation letter, which more than one of my profs readily offered, and turn in some info. Well, now they say I really got it. The thing is, I am still skeptical, I feel like any time now they're going to do like last time and tell me that it's off. Although, the seminars start on july 11, so there's not much time for them to change their mind, or is there?
I am getting my passport (I don't have one because I have never been to anywhere outside my country), but I still have that bad feeling that they might say its off all of a sudden...
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