Examples of good personal statements?

Applying to College
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<p>I would like to see examples of personal statements of students that got accepted to Stanford, USC, Columbia, NYU, Brown, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UCLA</p>

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<p>[Essays</a>, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html]Essays”>http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html)</p>

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<p>A bold first post. Members smart enough to get into those schools are hopefully smart enough not to…</p>

<p>Using the Search function on the Essay forum yields among others:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-essays/1101442-book-recommendation-college-essays.html?highlight=books[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-essays/1101442-book-recommendation-college-essays.html?highlight=books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Google works too. For University California essay advice:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.californiacolleges.edu/admissions/university-of-california-uc/personal-statement.asp[/url]”>http://www.californiacolleges.edu/admissions/university-of-california-uc/personal-statement.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and if you replace video for advice, you will get this from the UCs:</p>

<p><a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube;