Admissions essay powerpoint

1. MY JOURNEY
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My name is Chloe Treaster and I am an
adopted Chinese American.
I have grown up in both Manhattan and
Miami and now living in Denver, Colorado.
I grew up playing soccer and I love to ski,
hike, travel and take landscape
photography.
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3. E A R LY DAYS
ADOP T ION
• At 8 months I was adopted from an orphanage in
Shanghai, China.
• My adoptive mother and I flew to New York City, where I
grew up, going to public schools in Manhattan.
FIRST TRIP
• Soon after my arrival in the United States, I was off on my
first foreign adventure—sailing on a small ship around
various islands of the Galapagos in Ecuador.
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4. L E A R N I N G AT A
YO U N G AG E
• Almost every year of my childhood we would travel to a new country for a
week or two.
• New York City opened me up to the variety of nationalities and customs
of people everywhere in the world.
• But travel abroad really showed the rich tapestry in detail and whetted
my appetite for more.
• Even before I could understand, I became aware that languages
sounded different from one country to another, and food varied from
place to place.
• Later I came to appreciate exposure to different cultures and to our
history.
• This experience made me determined to continue to explore the world
with an open and curious mind and acceptance of everyone.
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5. L E A R N I N G AT A
YO U N G AG E
• My parents and I visited England, France, Greece, Italy,
Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scotland.
• I learned to love art, particularly the French
Impressionists.
• I imagined the gory battles fought in the Coliseum in
Rome for the Emperor.
• I admired the architecture of the Acropolis in Athens.
• In the mosques of Istanbul I learned about the Islamic
religion and customs.
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6. C O L L E G E Y E A R S
• In college I studied filmmaking in Prague
one summer.
• I found that very few people spoke English
outside of the very center of the old town.
• It was fun, though, trying to communicate
with hand gestures and facial expressions.
• I learned that humor in the Czech Republic
was a lot dryer than American humor.
• For example the movies that we made
during study abroad were humorous to
us, but the Czech teachers were not as
amused.
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7. C O L L E G E Y E A R S
• Traveling throughout my college years opened
me up to the world of photography, specifically
landscape photography.
• A new camera improved my vision and inspired
a more penetrating engagement with my
surroundings.
• I followed paths up the mountains of
Switzerland and viewed the fjords of Norway
and learned I was good at perspective,
highlighting shapes and celebrating color.
• These images fed a deeper interest in the
landscape artists whose work I encountered in
the great museums.
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8. P O S T C O L L E G E
• I backpacked alone around New Zealand, Australia,
Thailand, Vietnam and China after graduation.
• I had always been outgoing, but this trip taught me
how to be even more proactive in talking to people I
didn’t know on buses and trains and making friends
at hostels.
• I felt pushed outside my comfort zone.
• For example practicing relaxing while eating by
myself at a restaurant.
• The poverty I observed in Thailand and Vietnam was
more shocking than anything I had seen in New York,
and it made me feel both sad and grateful to be so
privileged.
• Generations of families live together and in cramped
walk-ups with very few furnishings or amenities.
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Friends I met at hostel in Auckland, NZ

9. P O S T C O L L E G E
• My first job was a lucky break with American
Airlines in Revenue Management analytics.
• It offered free standby travel anywhere
American Airlines flies.
• I learned how flight schedules and pricing may
be affected by the results of an election,
political strife and international hostilities.
• I also discovered the fun of traveling anywhere
at the drop of a hat.
• People who work in the industry and love to
globe-trot think nothing of grabbing an empty
seat on an overnight flight to Chile for a mere
24 hours on the ground.
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10. C OV I D Y E A R S
• The Pandemic invaded the country in March 2020 and
foreclosed international travel.
• I moved from Dallas to Denver for a new job, with Vail
Resorts. I immediately made friends with a group of
people who loved to ski and hike.
• While many compatriots locked themselves in for fear of
catching the Covid virus, we were able to organize
camping trips to a dozen of America’s National Parks.
• Serendipitously my new employer had introduced me to a
surprising new love: I discovered that I was born to hike
and camp.
• As a child of the big city, I had no inkling of the pleasures
of outdoor life and the awe inspired by the grandeur of
nature in the West.
• I am developing a curiosity about geology and astronomy
that never occurred to me before I pitched a tent in the
Rocky Mountains and slept under the stars.
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11. C O N C LU S I O N
• I have learned a lot from my lifetime of
travels and hope to continue learning,
exploring and growing.
• Curiosity is one of the most important
attributes a person can have within their life
and their work.
• Studying abroad in Madrid will allow me to
continue growing professionally as well as
personally and I hope that I will have the
opportunity to do so in one of my favorite
cities.
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12. T H A N K Y O U F O R
C O N S I D E R I N G M E F O R
T H E D U A L D E G R E E M B A
A N D B U S I N E S S
A N A L Y T I C S A N D B I G
D A T A P R O G R A M
Chloe Treaster
Chloe.treaster@gmail.com
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