Hello everyone!
I am reapplying for the UC’s this fall and was wondering if it were okay to reuse personal insight responses. I’m reapplying because I withdrew from university and took two years off from school for health reasons. I had previously applied to and gotten into UC Berkeley, UCSD, and UCLA.
2 yrs away should have altered your personal insight. You are not a high school kid any longer, so why would you use the same essay?
I’m a transfer applicant and have been working two jobs for the last two years while recovering with health issues. I haven’t been able to add to my extracurriculars (clubs, etc.) because I wasn’t enrolled in a school; the internships available to me in my area required being enrolled in school. My responses to the UC personal insight questions would remain the same, just phrased differently.
I think you should try and change up 2-3. They probably will expect you to have some new insights. Plus, any event or leadership you write about should be from the last 1-2 years.
Again, you have had 2 yrs away from uni and withdrew from your first uni, that is going to be a big part of your story. Work is the ultimate EC/internship, re frame how you look at yourself, you cannot be the child that applied years ago.