Overnight, I lost my father due to his mistakes in life that were unforgivable and led him to prison. Seeing the father I pictured as “perfect” behind bars was unreal. Receiving letters from him frequently, to receiving no letters. This happened when I started to grow up and began to understand the crime he committed. I questioned him and his actions, which led to not receive any more letters. These questions are ones that many 10-year-olds never think about. 10-year-old me was wondering why a person who many thought was a good man became a bad man or why criminals continue their crime knowing it is wrong. 18-year-old me is still wondering these questions and decided to study criminology. I plan to work hard, find answers to my questions, and understand criminals. To make a change to the correctional system by finding ways to avoid having people commit further crimes. However, before I make suggestions to change the correctional system, I want to become a behavioralist profiler. Helping find criminals with their behavior and bringing justice for all. Learning more about criminal behavior and being able to apply my knowledge from college with my experience as a profiler to create a change in the correctional system. For the job of a behavioral profiler, I would be using the knowledge I will gain from my university with the help of this scholarship to lower the cost of my education. This scholarship would help me continue my studies to learn and push me to achieve my dreams of making a change in the correctional system. I would be able to focus on my studies and get closer to finding answers to 10-year-old Angie’s questions. Since I work at McDonald’s to be able to pay for college, the money from this scholarship would lift a heavy weight of worry off my back and lift it off of my single mother’s back. Being a Latina and an underrepresented minority, I became witness to the struggle my mom went through in my life. Seeing her get rejected and ignored for not being fluent in English or by her looks. Those experiences have shifted my view of life and my goals in life. I’ve become ambitious to become successful in my career and take my mom far in life. Give her materialistic items she never had a chance to buy for herself due to her putting me first. Wanting to give her experiences she has never had due to working every day of her life. The concept of getting a college education that she never had a chance to have is my motivation to become great. To become someone in life who will have an impact on society by keeping them safe from criminals on the loose and having an impact on my mother’s life. This money would impact me by helping lower the cost of my school, but the overall impact is knowing that someone else believes in me. Knowing that someone sees the plan I have for myself to make a change in the correctional system with the knowledge and experience I get from my education and behavioral profile job would be the biggest help I get. The struggle my mom goes through in trying to make ends meet financially alone is big and now, with the addition of my college tuition, it has grown. I want to take off as much of the burden as I can, and winning this scholarship money would be a step forward to achieving that and a step forward to achieving change in the world of criminals.