Venezuela Personal Statement

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I have had the opportunity to travel to various countries, both developed and developing, and also completing my schooling in the United States and staying in the UK for few months. In traveling to different countries and getting a chance to immerse myself in different environments, I have discovered that my home country, Venezuela, has an economic climate very different from that of many developed countries. The difference between the level of general wealth between developing and developed countries has highly impacted me, and has made me increasingly aware that there was something fundamentally wrong with the economics of developing countries, and particularly those of Venezuela. This is one of the driving ideas behind my interest in economics. After experiencing a drastically different level of general wealth and comfort in developed countries, I have become acutely aware of the true difference between prosperous and stagnant economies, even though that there are a large group of developing countries consolidated today as emerging economies. That difference was amplified and echoed by the overall confidence and optimism of Americans, brought on by their innate prosperity, compared to my experience of Venezuelan's natural…show more content…
I am also taking AP Calculus BC, AP Microeconomics, and AP Macroeconomics as a senior in hopes to further my economic understanding and competency. I want to regularly expose myself to as much economic material as possible, from mathematics driven publications like Bierman and Fernandez's Game Theory with Economic Applications, which albeit complicated was highly useful as a guide to economic and financial decision-making, to philosophically and socially centered books like Fukuyama's Trust, which revealed to me one of the reasons for innate acceptance of government intervention in some
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