MA Educational Counseling Personal Purpose Statement Help

The master's degree program in Educational Counseling at the University of XXXX is my first choice for graduate school. I especially admire the diversity of UXX and the vast professional opportunities that exist for preparing and enhancing my career opportunities for many years to be receiving a graduate degree from UXX. I especially appreciate the special focus on urban education, and the full exploration that takes place at UXX of urban and minority issues pertaining to education and educational counseling.

A young Chinese American woman raised in China as well as in the USA, I had an incredibly positive educational experience at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, before transferring to UC Berkeley and finishing my BA in Psychology in May of 2016. I see my time at Chaffey College as of integral or foundational importance to my educational progress and I am most excited about the prospect of developing a special focus as a graduate student at UXX on educational counseling at the community college level, helping students like myself to find the drive and determination to realize their fullest dreams by reaching out and attaining the finest education possible.

Born in California to Chinese parents, we returned to China when I was in the 4th grade, and we stayed there for 5 years; coming back to the USA just in time for me to start high school. My parents moving around a lot for professional reasons, in the USA and China, resulted in special challenges for my educational and emotional wellbeing as I was growing up. I was in special need of the kind of support that a school counselor has to offer. This was particularly true at the community college level when I was in search of the support and assistance for the highly competitive goal of attending UC Berkeley.

While I have thought about becoming an educational counselor since I was a student in high school, this goal has taken shape in my mind with special clarity since my time as a student at Chaffey College. I am thankful that I had the experience of studying for 5 years in China, making me fully bicultural as well as bilingual, and providing me with intensive, first-hand experience in the Chinese educational system. There is nothing equivalent to the American school counselor in the Chinese educational system, despite the great need for academic and personal counseling for Chinese students.

My educational counselor at Chaffey College has become for me a singularly prominent role model. I so very much appreciate the way that she inspired me to reach for the stars and apply to UC Berkeley. I keenly look forward to helping students to think positively about their futures and learning that they too can reach for the stars academically and professionally - and do so successfully. Thank you for considering my application to Educational Counseling at the University of XXXX.