My name is Kevin Ngo. I am a child of an immigrant and a first-generation Asian-American, Vietnamese-American. I am currently a graduate of Hunter High School, and have been involved in many Extracurricular activities and am striving to succeed for many different reasons. Throughout my years in school, I developed and improved myself in many ways. My future is very important to me because I’m not only working for myself but for my family as well.

My school life has been very challenging ever since I was a child. My mother wants me to be successful and because doesn’t want to me struggle as she did. My mom  immigrated to the United States through the Vietnam war at the age of 17, through my grandpa who was a soldier during the war. My mom never had the opportunities that I am presented with today. She made the best of her situation.

Although my mom was never a young mother, she still had a disadvantage financially as a mother compared to many of the families around me because she did not attend school when she immigrated here. Even as the youngest child my mom would work in order to support her siblings and my grandparents who all also worked full-time.

When I was at the age of 10 my parents had a divorce making the financial situation worse. Although my father left the house and too cars that were purchased during their marriage, he also took $50,000, which was all of their savings during their marriage. I currently live in a full household with both of my grandparents, mom, aunt, cousin and younger brother. My aunt and grandparents live with me because after the divorce my mother did not have enough money to afford the house payments alone.

When I was a child I was a delinquent. I was very rebellious when I was in 6th Grade. I was on safety patrol but because of my delinquency I was kicked off. Right before we went to Lagoon, an amusement park in Utah, this happened and it made me both angry and sad. I felt this way until the end of my seventh-grade year. In seventh grade I was in trouble countless times. At one point destroyed an oven because I was careless.

Because of everything in my past, teachers and counselors had a feeling whenever speaking to me that I would probably never amount to much. Basically this was and is my motivation since the 8th grade until now. I have been striving to become the best and most educated that I can be. I have been striving to show the people in my life that I will and can be successful and won’t stop until I am.

My plans for the future are to be successful in business so I can support my parents and myself and live a life that we never had.

I chose the business field because I believe that business is one of the fields that is very broad. I could bring improvement not only within my own family but to others as well.  

Although I want to be able to show my parents the joys of the world that they never got to enjoy because of me, I also want to be able to improve the world and society through new innovations and new products.  I want to be successful in order to help improve the lives of my parents as well as the world we currently live in.

This is why education is so important to me. I believe that although there are many others of the same ethnicity as me, I would add more diversity to the University of Utah through many different things such as my different experiences growing up, my values, and my ideas.

I believe that I deserve second chances and a scholarship to college even though I am not the only participant that wants to work hard for their family and community.

I’m a very exertive person and will take action and execute what I believe in and I’m not scared of failure or risks. Failure to me is not something bad, it is something you can learn and improve from.