Question About Personal Statement

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Hi! I'm currently still working on my UC personal statement and planning to transfer for Fall 2012. However, I focused my personal statement on prompt 2 instead of prompt 1 (write about 700 words for prompt 2 and only 300 words for prompt 1). I don't have any major accomplishments. My community college counselor said that I need to focus on the prompt 1 as most of transfer students focus on prompt 1. If I focus on prompt 1 and looks pretty weak compare to other students, I'm afraid that it's not a good idea. What do you think of this?</p>

<p>All comments are really appreciated :).</p>

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<p>bump! I’m stuck on that too ;-;</p>

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<p>Idk why your CC counselor is telling you to favor one prompt over another when the UC’s certainly do not. Although UC’s want you to write more for one over the other, they don’t care which one you choose to write more for.</p>

<p>I had my personal statement looked at toady by a counselor who went to Cal, worked as a CalSO counselor and manager, worked as a Political Science major adviser, worked in admissions, etc. and she told me that my essay for the first prompt was great and that I had a good shot. It was the shorter of the two.</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about stuff like this, guys! :slight_smile: My personal statements were 1,086 words…far more than the…I think it’s 1,012 words example they give online haha. I freaked out for months about whether that would get me rejected. Little things like this don’t matter at all. If you write good essays (both in form and content), you’ll be fine. Distributing the essays as 700 and 300…personally I wouldn’t do it because that difference is pretty big, but it shouldn’t hurt you. If they’re great essays, then you’re fine either way.</p>

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<p>^ thank you so much! I feel a lot more relieved now x__x;;</p>