How to Draft a Perfect Personal Statement?

More often than not, a personal statement wins you a place at your favorite university to study your favorite subject. It is your only means in the entire application, allowing you to openly convey your present self, ideas, experiences, and – most importantly – your solemn aspirations to the university you've selected.

Your personal statement is a 47-line striking piece of information about yourself. While many students consider it a brainstorming activity about what to include and what to omit, others might face writer's block while reasoning their choices, stating their personal qualities, or simply thinking of inspirational experiences. If you also belong to the latter, here are quick tips that will strengthen your personal statement up to a captivating level.

Choose your subjects wholeheartedly

If you've pulled up your pen after writing "because," it means you have very little or no reason for choosing that particular subject. This is a silent alarm as good as a lifesaver for many students so that they would start weighing more options and avoid ending up with a subject they dislike. Since you're still at the stage of decision-making, you have all the chance and time to reconsider your choice.

Once you have revised your options, you will be able to complete the "Why have I chosen this course" section of your personal statement. If you have enough to state in a paragraph or two and your brain is oozing out more ideas than with the subject you chose before. Congratulations! The right choice has been made!

Stay Mindful yet Passionate

Now that you are done selecting the best course for yourself, conveying your love for it is the very next step.  Let's get this clear; you're not writing 47 lines on "my love for archeology" or "how I fixed that motherboard when I was a child" just because you want to study engineering. However, what you do need to do is show you're highly optimistic about your plans of studying and your chosen subject and that's the only reason you're applying.

Remember, although mainly about you, you can't get done with your Personal Statement without mentioning the whys – Why the course? Why it suits? Why it's the best?

In order to have enough to display on your statement, follow these simple tips and tricks:

·         Find relevant stuff online. You may listen to TED talks that cover a range of subjects in the small lectures.

·         Maybe start a blog about your subject? Writing about the topics you've discussed on your blog will serve as a booster to your application.

·         What's more, you can join a club or society at your college or school, and that would provide a handy experience to add into your statement.

·         Attend open lectures at local universities. Talking about the last lecture you attended and your takeaways from it would be the apt way of showing how pumped up and driven you are about your higher studies.

Don't just inform; impress!

Admission officers read a hefty amount of applications during each period of student intake. The officer knows you have completed 12 years of education, and he is least interested in knowing that you got full attendance in grade six. What he expects from you are those things that make you different, that define you, set you apart from others, and make you who you are.

This is your personal statement. You have to convince the reader that you are sincerely interested in your subject and that you will be a good fit for the university, which you are applying to. 

Follow these steps:

1.      Write down everything about yourself on a piece of paper such as your hobbies, interests, experiences, lessons, books you've read, and all such related stuff - even if it doesn't seem relevant at this point.

2.      Now start filtering out. Select three to four most relevant facts.

3.      Turn these facts into sentences, include them in your statement, and that's it. This is your very own statement leaving its mediocrity all the way behind.

Let another pair of eyes check through it

Rule to remember: The first draft is a rough draft, no matter how complete it may seem. Have it checked and rechecked. Take all of your time to write the first thing, and then show it to a teacher who has helped many like you. Write their personal statement and submit university applications. Only a teacher can tell you if your conclusion leaves an impact, whether the first paragraph is immediately captivating or not, or that you're being too pretentious and extra driven by emotions. You surely don't want your admissions officer to pin-point all that; better have it done a step earlier.

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