<p>I have a personal statement prompt that says: Prepare a statement regarding your motivation for study at this school, and your study and career plans in 400-500 words. </p>
<p>Then it says through this statement, we would like to get to know you better as a person/student.</p>
<p>How can I respond to this prompt so that it would give the college an idea of who I am? I feel like writing about why I want to go to this school, my field of interest and what I want to do at this school, and what I want to become doesn't really help them get to know me; as a person, at least.</p>
<p>So far I've only written about what I want to do academically and careers I'm looking at. Will writing about non-academics things I want to do in the four years at college (like sports) be a good idea?</p>
<p>When a prompt specifically asks you to write about your motivation for “study”, your future “study” plans, and “career plans”, writing about non-academic things you’d like to do in college would be not answering the question.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this will help but maybe it’s better to replace some of the words in the prompt with “major”, ie what is your motivation for the major at this school? what is your major, and what are you expecting to do with your major, and finally what are your career plans.</p>
<p>It may not seem to you that the answers to such questions may give a person a better account of what you are like, but it will. Primarily when you answer the motivation part. If you find yourself stuck stating what your study and career plans are, include the “why”?</p>
<p>ie “i want to be a lawyer”
why do you want to be a lawyer? ie “I want to fight justice.” why? “because when i was little…i realized… since then I have done the following…”</p>