Ucla personal statement!!

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<p>hey guys.
i will be applying this to UCLA this fall as a transfer student and i was wondering if anyone feels comfortable posting their </p>

<p>1) What is your intended major? Discuss how your interest in the subject developed and describe any experience you have had in the field — such as volunteer work, internships and employment, participation in student organizations and activities — and what you have gained from your involvement. </p>

<p>2)Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?</p>

<p>on here :) </p>

<p>i just want to look at how a successful personal statement looks like when applying to UCLA
for now.. im LOST! :(
thanks alot!</p>

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<p>Not posting my stuff, but I can give you some advice. The objective of the personal statement is to show them what you can’t show them with grades and extra curricular activities. Make yourself look as unique as possible in your personal statement so it’ll separate you from the rest of the crowd (hopefully in the good way).</p>

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<p>IIRC first question is different from last years.</p>

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<p>Hm. I’m not a fan of the new first question. I’m glad I’m not applying this year.</p>

<p>Anywho, like TheRageKage12 said, be different. Separate yourself. Don’t write about something 100s of other applicants will write about. Show why you are unique, special, and an asset to the school. How will you contribute? And when addressing either prompt, be specific. Show how you are very involved in one thing, rather than mention your involvement in many activities. I’ll also reiterate, do not include details that are redundant with regard to the rest of the application, like grades or listing awards, activities, etc. Not that you can’t write IN DEPTH about a single activity listed elsewhere in the app. That’s what I did for one of my prompts, I believe.</p>

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<p>And use apostrophes correctly. :p</p>

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<p>wow the first question is a *****. no way you can answer why you like something like microbio or neuroscience besides “its interesting.”</p>

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<p>Are the transfer Q’s the same as first year apps? I’m helping some people write theirs, does anyone have recent essay questions?</p>

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<p>woooow. first question really is a *****…</p>

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<p>The prompts are the same as last year’s, they rarely change it:

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<p>The UC essay is not like the essay at private schools. According to admission books, a sparkling essay that catches the eye of an adcom can push you ahead of other applicants with similar stats. I remember in one book an adcom discussing an essay about 3 seasons sitting on the bench on the HS baseball team, and the lessons the kid took from it. This is the kind of essay that really makes an applicant come alive and perhaps get admitted; it is also exactly the wrong approach at a UC school.</p>

<p>What readers are looking for is a way to see what points you get in terms of the holistic process. As UCLA says at [Freshman</a> Selection - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/adm_fr/frsel.htm]Freshman”>Application Review Process for First-Years | UCLA Undergraduate Admission)

You can do some more research on the web and find out how much these factors can help you. But your essays are a big part of what they examine to determine what credit you get. As they say on that same page **In applying the criteria above, readers carefully consider evidence provided in the personal statement… **</p>

<p>So my advice is don’t write these as a ordinary essays. First, get a piece of paper and list all the factors that may help you – economic background, family challenges, etc. Then work each and every one of these into your essays.</p>

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<p>Those were the same questions as the personal statement i had to do last year as a transfer. Just explain why your major tickles your fancy.</p>

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<p>Interesting, the first question is one of the questions I had when I was applying to MIT a few years ago. Thanks for the help, I’ll pass it on.</p>

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<p>Oh yeah, I forgot that the transfers get a different first question than incoming freshmen.:o</p>

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<p>Use this website to help you with your personal statement, I found it pretty helpful when I wrote mine.
[UC</a> Berkeley | Tackling the Personal Statement](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/apa/personalstatement/]UC”>http://students.berkeley.edu/apa/personalstatement/)</p>