<p>If so, where is the evidence?</p>
<p>Irvine does too. Email them If you want evidence</p>
<p>Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, and UC Merced all use a holistic process that factors in the personal statement into admission. For the remaining five they still read them but they don’t typically hold any weight in admission. That being said, I seem to remember hearing that they may used in a situation where they’re on the fence about an applicant to compare them to other “maybe” applicants. You may want to ask an admission rep regarding that, but typically it only plays a role in admission for the aforementioned four. </p>
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<a href=“University of California Counselors”>University of California Counselors;
<p>All UC’s use them in determining financial Aid packages, but I believe that only Cal, UCLA, and Irvine use as a main purpose in determining admissions, that being said the remaining UC campuses do use them as a determining factor if an applicant is “on the fence”.</p>
<p>Personal statement isn’t hard to write IMO. You just need to write about yourself, what’s unique about you and what you can do. Besides my 3.98 GPA I didn’t have much EC, but my personal statement was really me. I got in all of them.</p>