Personal Statement for student exchange to USA

     I would describe myself as a very determined learner. The quality that I like most about myself is my passion for mathematics. I am an outgoing person with strong determination and outstanding academic achievement. With the supports and helps from good teachers and my loving parents, I managed to be the top student in one of the top secondary school  - Jit Sin High School. In university, I passed all my examinations with flying colors and my CGPA is 3.95. Although I have very good academic results, I am very humble and friendly. Besides studies, I am also active in extra-curricular activities. I became committee member of English Society during my secondary school and currently become quartermaster in Red Crescent Society in University Sains Malaysia.

Moreover, I love sport too. I can play table tennis, badminton, football, and swim well. I was the school representative for table tennis and I won many prizes in competition. It is also my routine to exercise every evening and normally I will jogging or play other sports. The determination in sport makes me healthy and build up my confident. Besides, I have lots of good personalities such as caring, loving, and friendly. As such, I participate actively in community service activities such as visiting orphanage every week. I love the kids there very much and I like to teach them mathematics. The experience I learned there makes me more matured and more passionate to help others in need.

     Since I was young, I wanted to be a mathematics educator. As such, I choose Bachelor of Science Education in University Sains Malaysia with major mathematics to achieve my academic objective to become a mathematics educator. It is also my dream to study in U.S. as I loved U.S. very much because of U.S. diverse cultures, good education system that promotes good academic results, problem solving skills, leadership, good attitude, and noble values. My goals of my study are to gain knowledge and good results. Then apply for scholarship to pursue my Master and PhD in U.S. My goals of my own personal development are to become emerging leader with good communication skills.

         I wish to pursue mathematics program in Stanford University, California, U.S. for one academic year. I choose to study there for a year because a semester period is not enough for me to expose to U.S. fully. I love to pursue mathematics program in U.S. because I have deep affection in mathematics. I also like to search and solve challenging mathematics problems online and my love of mathematics cannot be described with words. The various mathematics problem solving skills not only helps me to think analytically and logically, but it also helps me in my daily life activities. Currently I am interested with the new course “Math of the Brain” launched by Stanford University. This course is very interesting because the course investigate the mathematics behind the brain's structures and functions.

     I greatly wished that I will have this great opportunity and privileged to become one of the fortunate students to be chosen by the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program. I believe that I could benefit from this program and contribute to my country with the knowledge and experience that I gained. I hope that I will have the chances to expose and to get first-hand experience of cultures, environment, and education system of U.S.