<p>SO i was just wondering...do the schools even read your personal statements? I mean I have tag for almost all of the schools you can tag to, so what is the point of the personal statment if ur admission is gauranteed anyways? 0_o</p>
<p>I believe that all schools read your personal statement, except UCSD. </p>
<p>If you’re TAGd, then they’ll read your statement but it wont really matter. Thats why many students try to get a TAG so they can speak about either Berkeley or LA in their statement since it wont matter for that TAG school anyways.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/files/cc10_transfermatrix_final.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/counselors/files/cc10_transfermatrix_final.pdf</a></p>
<p>Davis, San Diego, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz do not look at your personal statement.</p>
<p>Nice find rikizle!</p>
<p>I had a feeling that more campuses other than UCSD probably didn’t read them, but I wouldn’t have thought that it would be more than half of the schools!</p>
<p>Oh need to note whats mentioned in the bottom:</p>
<p>“While campuses vary in use of the personal statement, all use it to evaluate gaps in applicants’ educational history or in the evaluation of applicants for certain scholarships.”</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s a thousand words. I do much, much more than that each week for discussion boards in my class. Also, many of the schools will not even approve your tag until next year such as UCSB, UCI, and UCSD… so having TAG isn’t that great of a reassurance unless you know for sure you’re going to go to UCD or somewhere that has accepted TAG already. I say you should just put the effort into it, if you’re a fair writer and are pursuing a major you are truly passionate about it, prompt #1 should be a breeze. That’s where a majority of my word count is going. Good luck!</p>
<p>I met with an admissions counselor from UCSD and she totally blew off the personal statement. She said they do not really read them, they just look at the numbers.</p>
<p>I was kind of erked by that, but she said she thinks UCLA and Berkeley consider them more. Then she found out I was an Anthro major and said "Oh then it really doesn’t matter, its not impacted youll be fine.'</p>
<p>I was all like “Whaaaaaaat?”</p>
<p>They often use personal statement as a way to admit borderline individuals if you major in a non-impacted major then you are most likely admitted if qualified. So it would be pointless for them to read the personal statement if they were to admit you based on GPA already.</p>