Personal Statement for College: Writing about Life-changing Mistakes Made in High School

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Your success is not the only thing that matters in your personal statement for college.  The admissions committee will also give due consideration to your failures and mistakes as part of who you really are.  Admissions officers also note how you deal with disappointments to assess if you can really make it through college.  After [...]

Sample college personal statement essay: culture and graphics design

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A turning point in my life was when my parents decided to relocate from Korea to the United States. During that time, I was living happily with my family and was content to go to the local elementary school. Even though I was still not a teenager back then, I could not help but feel [...]

Sample law school personal statement essay: working from passion

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I grew up in the United States as the daughter of Indonesian parents, but I didn’t really feel like an American or Indonesian. I learned the English language in school but spoke Bahasa Indonesia at home so it was hard for me to express myself freely in both languages. I was fluent in speaking Bahasa [...]

Sample medical school personal statement: Neuroscience

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I moved to the United States from Vietnam at the very young age of 13. I found it difficult to adjust to the total change in language, environment, and culture. As an introvert, it was really difficult for me to socialize with my peers, but being in a place where I couldn’t even speak the [...]

Sample Admission Essay for College: Dealing with bipolar disorder

The pursuit for learning is something that I would never get tired of.  I deem that the search for knowledge expansion is both a necessity and passion. Although I have packed myself with this kind of outlook, I cannot say that the road I traveled was easy. I was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder at [...]