Alyssa began filling out the application. Full name: Alyssa Carter. Field of expertise: classical piano. Just writing these words gave her a strange feeling she had always thought that things like this were for others the rich kids the ones who could dedicate all their time to music without worrying about money the ones whose parents would invest everything for their success but now she was writing her own name here not because someone pitied her not because someone wanted to help her but because she deserved to be here.
She continued to fill out each section answering questions about why she chose music how she started playing the piano and what she believed music had given her when she reached the last part where it asked for a short essay on why she deserved the scholarship. Alyssa suddenly stopped her finger hovering over the keyboard she closed her eyes and took a deep breath she knew the answer had always been there in her heart from the first day she touched those piano keys she opened her eyes and began to write: