<p>Me and my sister are applying for the same college
We both had an obstacle that forced us to stop learning for some years
Now, we are going to mention that in our personal statement
but the problem is that our last names are different, so I was afraid, like what if the admission would think
these two individuals have the same story and they are not related!
I am kinda of scared right now, but you see we have to mention this story, so they understand why we had a gap in our education!
What are you suggestions?
Thank you in advance</p>
<p>Change up the words, but unless out of the thousands of essays that they read it’s highly unlikely both of your essays would be close to each other. Also, I’m sure both your actual details experiences of how you felt and what changed u etc are completely different. Just to be safe, I would choose another topic because you know,… There’s always a chance </p>
<p>Thank you so much for your advice. They are asking to write a personal statement, I thought all personal statement topics should be about my life, my academic progress and why I choose college X or why I am a good fit for college X, those sort of things .So, I don’t understand what do you mean by saying to choose another topic</p>
<p>You could each mention in your statement that you have a sister. “My sister and I were in the same grade” “my sister and I supported each other” etc.</p>
<p>The common app has a section for listing family members, including siblings. Surely it will be quite obvious, should the applications be read by the same adcoms, that the two of you are related?</p>
<p>Thank you VSG, so much that will help</p>
<p>Bem, yes that’s true for the common application, but two of the colleges we are applying to, do not ask anything about a sibling, and that’s why got me worried </p>