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- 6. How have you tested yourself ?
- 7. What are you capable of ?
- 10. No way to know whether those applicants were admitted because of or in spite of personal statements.
- 29. Choose what you want to demonstrate to the admissions committees.
- 39. Don’t dwell on suffering instead of describing personal growth and wisdom
- 41. Don’t write so much about your mentors that you don’t have space for yourself
- 49. Not just for hardships and obstacles
- 50. Opportunity to write about important experiences from high school years and earlier
- 55. UWC - Undergraduate Writing Centerhttp://uwc.utexas.edu/ “The Elements of Style”- William Strunk, Jr. http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html