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The College Admission EssayPersonal Statement
This personal statement helps university officials become acquainted with you in ways different from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will demonstrate your ability to organize thoughts and express yourself. They are looking for an essay that will help them know you better as a person and as a student.
Requirements
Essay must be 250–500 words in length. Essay must be typed in Microsoft Word. Use a 12-point, professional-looking font and
double-spacing. Place your full name, date of birth, and name of
secondary school on each sheet. Use header. Choose one of the options listed and make this
choice clear.
Topic choices
1) Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
Topic Choices
2) Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
Topic Choices
3) Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
Topic Choices
4) Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
Topic Choices
5) A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
Topic Choices
6) Topic of your choice.
Must tell about your character.
Must be approved by instructor.
Structure of Essay
FIVE PARAGRAPH FORMAT Introduction & Thesis Statement Supporting details/examples Supporting details/examples Supporting details/examples Conclusion
Introduction
Begin your essay with interesting descriptions and a tone that captures the reader’s interest.
Let the reader know what your essay will include.
Write a clear thesis statement.
Thesis Statement
A statement of opinion or subject. The entire essay should support this one
sentence. It is part of the introduction.
Body of Essay
Three supporting paragraphs. Each paragraph contains a topic sentence that
supports your thesis statement. Each paragraph contains examples or supporting
details Each paragraph contains an anchor sentence. The introduction is general, the supporting
paragraphs are specific.
Anchor Sentence
Just as an anchor keeps a ship in place and keeps it from drifting aimlessly across the sea, an anchor sentence holds the paragraph in place and connects it to your thesis.
It tells the reader how examples and details in your supporting paragraph are linked to your thesis statement.
Conclusion
Recap what you have presented to the reader.
Leave the reader with a clinching statement that impresses the reader and makes your essay memorable.
It is not merely a summary or restatement of what you have written; it is more analytical and thoughtful.
Outline
I. Introduction - Description -Thesis StatementII, III, IV. Body Paragraphs (x3)
- Topic Sentence - Supporting details/examples - Anchor: show how details relate to thesis
V. Conclusion - Restate how you have supported thesis - Give clinching statement, or final thought
Due Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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