· Background: I am 24 year old. I was a bad student in Hong Kong, by that means I had bad grades, bad conducts, and bad attitude toward studying. I have three sisters, they all graduated from different universities in Canada. My parents decided to send me abroad to Canada for education when I was 13 to be a grade 9 student in year 2006. My eldest sister was spending her last year in Toronto finishing her master degree, she was 2 hours away from the small town I lived in. Once I moved into Canada, I well adopted the new education system and I loved the environment and people there. I started to set goals and work hard to achieve them like my sisters did. Everything I did seemed to pull me closer to my family and fix the relationship between my parents. But good things didn’t last long, I was forced to drop out of high school when I was halfway through grade 12 in 2009, 6 months before graduation, due to the financial crisis happened in 2007-2008. The crisis got the best of my father, his company couldn’t hold on til I graduate. It directly affected my father’s company and investments he had held back then, and he was the only source maintaing the whole family. Since I had settled back in Hong Kong, I started to work for my own living, but with low education level, not much of a choice but to work as sales associate in a small company. I was once depressed and negative in my life. There was nothing worth to work hard for. It all came to a change when I worked in a bullion trading company. It has become a motivation for me to save up money and to pursuade my parents to pursue what I left off at in Canada. All these years had passed by, each one of my younger cousins gradually going abroad to study in California. I have been always contacting them and asking them the educational system and environments in CA. And I secretly started to plan for my educational journey. Required question Please describe how you have prepared for your intended major, including your readiness to succeed in your upper-division courses once you enroll at the university. Things to consider: How did your interest in your major develop? Do you have any experience related to your major outside the classroom — such as volunteer work, internships and employment, or participation in student organizations and activities? If you haven’t had experience in the field, consider including experience in the classroom. This may include working with faculty or doing research projects. If you’re applying to multiple campuses with a different major at each campus, think about approaching the topic from a broader perspective, or find a common thread among the majors you’ve chosen. · Work experience: worked at a bullion trading company (Fuji Bullion Limited) for 8 months when I was 19 in 2012, I got promoted as a manager a couple months before I left. I joined the company because it didn’t require any certificate to work the tradings, and I wanted to learn and know more about invest.