Writing Personal Statements: 2016 OCSA College FairRebecca Joseph
Personal statements are very effective tools for creative high school students to share their passions with colleges. Here is our powerpoint for October 20, 2016 College Fair
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Communicating Their Stories: 2015 SuperAcacRebecca Joseph
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HECA 2016: Getting to Know You: The Purpose of Each College Application EssayRebecca Joseph
Getting to Know You: The Purpose of Each College Application Essay. In this panel two college admissions officers and two IECs will talk about the role of the entire application essay package in the admissions process. Both admissions officers on our panel come from colleges with several supplemental essay prompts that push applicants to reveal unique qualities they will offer colleges and vice versa. We will share strategies from both sides of the desk about what IECs can do to help students prepare an entire package of essays.
Rebecca Joseph, Independent Educational Consultant, Professor, Get Me To College; Chuck Bachman, Senior Associate Director of Admissions, Lafayette College Jessica DeSantis, Senior Associate Director of Admissions, Lehigh University, Cyndy McDonald, Independent Educational Consultant, Guided Path Location: Maestro B Tuesday, June 21 at 11:40 a.m.
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This is my powerpoint from my College Greenlight presentation about college application essays. It's short and sweet. You need to tell stories that show your leadership and initiative. Jump off the page.
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This is my presentation for the National Honor Society virtual college fair on Tuesday, May 17, 2016. It includes all comprehensive tips to help juniors get ready for college application season.
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2016 Palisades Charter High School College FairRebecca Joseph
This is my 2016 Communicating Your Stories: Ten Tips For Writing Powerful College Application Essays Presentation. Please share and give me any feedback.
Communicating Their Stories: 2015 SuperAcacRebecca Joseph
We believe personal statements and college applicant essays help round out applications and provide a uniquely personal opportunity for students to share their stories. We come from both sides of the admissions desk, so thank you for coming to our session.
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I gave this presentation at the Orange County School of the Arts 2013 College Night. It is essential that students and families see the importance of college application essays and the ways students can use these powerful essays to communicate unique stories and qualities.
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Rebecca Joseph, Independent Educational Consultant, Professor, Get Me To College; Chuck Bachman, Senior Associate Director of Admissions, Lafayette College Jessica DeSantis, Senior Associate Director of Admissions, Lehigh University, Cyndy McDonald, Independent Educational Consultant, Guided Path Location: Maestro B Tuesday, June 21 at 11:40 a.m.
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2016 Palisades Charter High School College FairRebecca Joseph
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
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Writing Great UC Personal Insight Question Responses
1. Writing Great UC Personal
Insight Question Responses
Rebecca Joseph
getmetocollege@gmail.com
@getmetocollege
@allcollegeessay
http://tinyurl.com/alha
mbrafair2016
2. How Important Are Personal Statements?
What do American colleges look for?
1. Grades
2. Rigor of Coursework, School
3. Test Scores
4. Essays/Personal Statements*
5. Recommendations-Teacher and/or Counselor
6. Activities-Consistency, development, leadership,
and initiative
7. Special skills, culture, connections, talents, and
passions
4. Essays Are One Piece of The Applicant’s
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5. The Power and Danger of Essays
1. Give me two reasons why admissions officers value
college application essays.
2. Give me two reasons why they often dread reading
the majority of them.
8. So….Tip 1
Tip 1. College essays are fourth in importance
behind grades, test scores, and the rigor of
completed coursework in many admissions office
decisions. Don’t waste this powerful
opportunity to share your voice and express
what you really offer to a college campus.
Great life stories make you jump off the page and
into your match colleges.
9. A New Paradigm
Tip 2.
Develop an overall
strategic essay writing
plan.
College essays should
work together to
help you communicate
key qualities and
stories not available
anywhere else in
your application.
11. University of California
Fall 2017 application is
open.
Introduced new format
and prompts for both
freshman and transfer
essays
Applicants must write 4
short 350 word max
essays.
Freshman can choose
from 8 prompts.
12. UC Freshman Personal Insight Questions
Freshman Personal Insight Prompts: Answer any 4 of the following 8 questions:
What do you want UC to know about you? Here’s your chance to tell us in your own words.
Which questions you choose to answer is entirely up to you: But you should select questions that
are most relevant to your experience and that best reflect your individual circumstances.
1. Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others,
helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time.
2. Every person has a creative side, and it can be expressed in many ways: problem solving, original and
innovative thinking, and artistically, to name a few. Describe how you express your creative side.
3. What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and demonstrated that
talent over time?
4. Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to
overcome an educational barrier you have faced.
5. Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this
challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?
6. Describe your favorite academic subject and explain how it has influenced you.
7. What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?
8. What is the one thing that you think sets you apart from other candidates applying to the University of
California?
14. Great UC Guidance
Questions & guidance
Remember, the personal questions are just that —
personal. Which means you should use our guidance for
each question just as a suggestion in case you need help.
The important thing is expressing who are you, what
matters to you and what you want to share with UC.
Need more help?
Download the worksheet for freshman applicants [PDF]
See our writing tips & techniques
15. Question 1
1. Describe an example of your
leadership experience in which you have
positively influenced others, helped
resolve disputes, or contributed to
group efforts over time.
Things to consider: A leadership role can
mean more than just a title. It can mean being
a mentor to others, acting as the person in
charge of a specific task, or a taking lead role in
organizing an event or project. Think about
your accomplishments and what you learned
from the experience. What were your
responsibilities?
Did you lead a team? How did your
experience change your perspective on leading
others? Did you help to resolve an important
dispute at your school, church in your
community or an organization? And your
leadership role doesn’t necessarily have to be
limited to school activities. For example, do
you help out or take care of your family?
16. Question 2
2. Every person has a creative side,
and it can be expressed in many ways:
problem solving, original and
innovative thinking, and artistically, to
name a few. Describe how you express
your creative side.
Things to consider: What does creativity
mean to you? Do you have a creative skill
that is important to you? What have you been
able to do with that skill? If you used
creativity to solve a problem, what was your
solution? What are the steps you took to
solve the problem?
How does your creativity influence your
decisions inside or outside the classroom?
Does your creativity relate to your major or a
future career?
17. Question 3
3. What would you say is your greatest
talent or skill? How have you
developed and demonstrated that
talent over time?
Things to consider: If there’s a talent or skill
that you’re proud of, this is the time to share
it. You don’t necessarily have to be
recognized or have received awards for your
talent (although if you did and you want to
talk about, feel free to do so). Why is this
talent or skill meaningful to you?
Does the talent come naturally or have you
worked hard to develop this skill or talent?
Does your talent or skill allow you
opportunities in or outside the classroom? If
so, what are they and how do they fit into
your schedule?
18. Question 4
4. Describe how you have taken
advantage of a significant educational
opportunity or worked to overcome an
educational barrier you have faced.
Things to consider: An educational
opportunity can be anything that has added
value to your educational experience and
better prepared you for college. For example,
participation in an honors or academic
enrichment program, or enrollment in an
academy that’s geared toward an occupation
or a major, or taking advanced courses that
interest you — just to name a few.
If you choose to write about educational
barriers you’ve faced, how did you overcome
or strive to overcome them? What personal
characteristics or skills did you call on to
overcome this challenge? How did
overcoming this barrier help shape who are
you today?
19. Question 5
5. Describe the most significant
challenge you have faced and the steps
you have taken to overcome this
challenge. How has this challenge
affected your academic achievement?
Things to consider: A challenge could be
personal, or something you have faced in
your community or school. Why was the
challenge significant to you? This is a good
opportunity to talk about any obstacles
you’ve faced and what you’ve learned from
the experience. Did you have support from
someone else or did you handle it alone?
If you’re currently working your way through
a challenge, what are you doing now, and
does that affect different aspects of your life?
For example, ask yourself, “How has my life
changed at home, at my school, with my
friends, or with my family?”
20. Question 6
6. Describe your favorite
academic subject and explain how
it has influenced you.
Things to consider: Discuss how your
interest in the subject developed and
describe any experience you have had
inside and outside the classroom —
such as volunteer work, summer
programs, participation in student
organizations and/or activities — and
what you have gained from your
involvement.
Has your interest in the subject
influenced you in choosing a major
and/or career? Have you been able to
pursue coursework at a higher level in
this subject (honors, AP, IB, college or
university work)?
21. Question 7
7. What have you done to make your
school or your community a better
place?
Things to consider: Think of community as a
term that can encompass a group, team or a
place – like your high school, hometown, or
home. You can define community as you see
fit, just make sure you talk about your role in
that community. Was there a problem that
you wanted to fix in your community?
Why were you inspired to act? What did you
learn from your effort? How did your actions
benefit others, the wider community or both?
Did you work alone or with others to initiate
change in your community?
22. Question 8
8. What is the one thing that you think
sets you apart from other candidates
applying to the University of
California?
Things to consider: Don’t be afraid to brag a
little. Even if you don’t think you’re unique,
you are — remember, there’s only one of you
in the world. From your point of view, what
do you feel makes you belong on one of UC’s
campuses? When looking at your life, what
does a stranger need to understand in order
to know you?
What have you not shared with us that will
highlight a skill, talent, challenge, or
opportunity that you think will help us know
you better? We’re not necessarily looking for
what makes you unique compared to others,
but what makes you, YOU.
24. Some Tips
Three paragraphs or more.
Provide a specific example somewhere in the essay.
Don’t start too far in the past.
Try not to do both 4 and 5 if you’re focusing on
challenges or barriers.
Additional information is not for another example or
story. Only to explain something.
26. Great Strategy
Start with UC application.
Fill out the application including activity section
5 Honors
5 Non A-G Courses
5 Work/Jobs
5 Community Service
5 Extracurricular
Then go to short insight questions. Really focus on
four pieces of additional evidence you want to share
with UCs about what you offer.
These are practical, literal short essays.
27. Four Major Application Types:
2. The Common Application
Many private and some public American use the centralized
Common Application with their own Writing supplements
More than 700 colleges use it.
www.commonapp.org
Don’t start writing any essays until you see all the essays required
for your top schools. My app-All College Application Essays has the
requirements.
28. Current CA 2015-2017 Prompts
250-650 Words (2015-2016 percentages)
1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful
they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you,
then please share your story. (49%)
2. The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an
incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you
learn from the experience? (17%)
3. Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act?
Would you make the same decision again. (4%)
4. Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an
intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma-anything that is of
personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what
steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution. (10%)
5. Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your
transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
(22%)
29. Common Application Writing Supplements
Some long– U Penn, U Chicago (300-650 words)
Some medium—Stanford
Some small— Columbia, Brown
30. Four Major Application Types:
3. Private college specific applications
Fewer and fewer major private universities are not on the
common application
But there are still holdouts.
Georgetown and MIT to name a view.
Make sure you don’t write unnecessary essays as
Georgetown essays are like The Common Application.
31. Four Major Application Types:
4. Other systems
Some large public systems have their own
applications which do not require long, if any essays.
Yet their applications for financial aid or academic
support programs add in those requirements.
Washington State, for example, several short essays
which they share with other state systems.
The Coalition, Universal, and Cappex applications
service many colleges. Only use them if you can
submit two or more applications—not Common, on
it.
32. Develop A Master Chart
Tip 3. Keep a chart of all essays required by each
college, including short responses and optional
essays. View each essay or short response as a chance
to tell a new story and to share your core qualities.
I recommend three sheets.
1. Major deadlines and needs. Break it down by the four
application types
2. Core essays-Color code all the similar or overlapping essays.
3. Supplemental essays. Each college has extra requirements
on the common application. Again color code similar types:
Why are you a good match for us? How will you add to the
diversity of our campus?
33. Write the Fewest
Yet Most Effective Essays…
Tip 4.
Find patterns
between colleges
essay requirements.
Use essays more
than once.
36. 5. Other Brainstorming Tips
Help them brainstorm
1.Make a resume.
2.Start With UC Prompts
3.Reading model essays from actual college websites
4.Looking at other college’s essay prompts-U Chicago, Tufts
5.Creating a letter to future roommate or an amazing list of
what makes you you.
6.Looking at 5 top FB and Instagram Pictures
7.Reading models from other students
8.Do culture bags
37. Great Strategy
Start with UC application.
Fill out the application including activity section
5 Honors
5 Non A-G Courses
5 Work/Jobs
5 Community Service
5 Extracurricular
Then go to short insight questions. Really focus on
four pieces of additional evidence you want to share
with UCs about what you offer.
These are practical, literal short essays.
40. Into, Through, and Beyond Essay Approach
Tip 7. Follow Dr. Joseph’s Into, Through, and Beyond
approach.
It is not just the story that counts.
It’s the choice of qualities a student wants the college to
know about herself
41. Into,Through, and Beyond
Into
It’s the way the reader can lead the reader into the piece—images, examples, context.
Always uses active language: power verbs, crisp adjectives, specific nouns.
Through
What happened…quickly…yet clearly with weaving of story and personal analysis
Specific focus on the student
Great summarizing, details, and images at same time
Beyond
Ending that evokes key characteristics
Conveys moral
Answers ending prompts of two UC essays
UC 1”and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.”
UC 2 “What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it
relate to the person you are”
42. Goal of Into Through Beyond
Share positive messages and powerful
outcomes.
Focus on impact, leadership, and initiative.
If you want to include challenges, lead
quickly to who you are now.
Some states can use only socio-economic
status, but not race, in admissions, but in
your essays, your voice and background can
emerge.
43. Tip 8. Use active writing: avoid passive sentences and
incorporate power verbs. Show when possible; tell
when summarizing.
Tip 9. Have trusted inside and impartial outside
readers read your essays. Make sure you have no
spelling or grammatical errors.
Take the Time With These Essays
44. Final Thoughts
Tip 10. Most importantly, make yourself come alive
throughout this process. Write about yourself as
passionately and powerfully as possible. Be proud of your
life and accomplishments. Sell yourself!!!
Students often need weeks not days to write effective
essays. You need to push beyond stereotypes.
Admissions officers can smell “enhanced” essays.
You can find many great websites and examples but each
student is different.
45. Contact Dr. Joseph
Rebecca Joseph, PhD
Professor, Cal State LA
Founder, Get Me To College
and All College Application
Essays
Current 2016 Unsung Hero,
LA County
http://tinyurl.com/alhambrafair2
016
Contact
getmetocollege@gmail.com
@getmetocollege
@allcollegeessay