College Entrance Essay: The Youngest Child
It has been said that the youngest child is the child that has it the easiest among the parents. The parent places all the responsibilities and hopes on the oldest; the middle child is not even noticed by the parents; and the youngest gets all the love and attention of the parents. The youngest is spoiled. The youngest can do anything he wants. I am the youngest child in my family, and I do not feel spoiled or lucky. I have always lived in a competition with my two older sisters, Mona Keo, who is three years older than me, and Siti Keo, who is two years older than me.
My earliest recollection of this was when we were learning how to ride our bikes. Our parents bought each of us bikes. I had a bright new blue bike that said BMX on it. My sisters had their “girly” bikes, a pink one for Mona and a purple one for Siti. My dad spent the entire day teaching my sisters how to ride their bikes. It was long and hard but he succeeded in teaching them. But me, I was left to ride my two-wheeler with training wheels. I was “not ready” to ride my bike like everyone else. I felt left out; I wanted to be like my sisters. Every time they went around riding, I could not keep up with their two-wheelers and had to come home. I begged my dad to take off the training wheels, that day came a few months later. Once the training wheels were off, I spent only an hour or two learning how to ride a two-wheeler. I was so happy! I could finally keep up with my sisters, but I could not resist gloating. It had taken my dad an entire day to teach my sisters and me, their younger brother, only a few hours! Thus, the competition between my sisters and I began.
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The sense of competition that I feel is why it has been so hard being the youngest child. My sisters have done so many things in their 18 years on the planet, and I feel as if I have to match, if not beat them. Because the expectations that my parents have place upon me, in addition to the expectations I place upon myself, it has not been an easy journey for me, but I continue nonetheless.
My sisters have also been good in DECA, Distributed Educational Clubs of America. It was a marketing based club that was geared towards competition among the participants. Mona, being the oldest, was the first to join the club, she set the trend, and she received many awards and trophies from the competitions. Siti, following in Mona’s lead, also joined DECA and she proved to be even better in the competitions than Mona. She would come home from each competition with many trophies and medal every year. And thus, when I entered high school, it was expected from my parents that I would join DECA. I did not disappoint them.
Not only did I join DECA, for Mini-Conference, I entered in Food Marketing Category, the same category that my sister, Siti, was entered. Siti was the reigning queen of Food Marketing, she had received First place for both District and State competitions, and I was in no condition to challenge her standings, but I did it anyway. In the end, I placed second place overall in the category, only bested by my sister.
However, the competition I have between my sisters does not end there; it continues to this very day. Since both my sisters go to renowned colleges, I feel the pressure to well in high school so I can attend a college that is as prestige as their colleges. Yet I know that this decision must not be based on beating them; I must go to the college that I feel will challenge me to the best of my abilities.
Hence, it seems as if I have always follow in their footsteps. But the reason I compete against them is a very simple one. All I want from them is acceptance. I am their younger brother. I am also their brother, not their sister, I cannot relate with the situations they go through. I compete with them to prove that I am just as good as they are. That anything they can do, I can do.
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As I follow their footsteps, I have created my own path in the process. I realize that I cannot always compete against my older sisters in every category of life because we are not the same person and we have different interests. I am the vice-president of Science Olympiad, something they never held any interest in. By being the youngest, I can see how it has been an easy and hard journey for me. Being the youngest has given me a path to see, but not necessarily follow.
I have no idea when this competition that I feel between my sister and I shall end, if it will ever end, but it is one of the forces that motivates me to succeed. I do not want to be the “runt” of the family, to be the failure that nobody acknowledges. I shall always strive to be as good as my sisters, if not better, and in the process become my own person.
