College Essay Vs Personal Statement - Usually colleges have their own guidelines when it comes to college essay for admission or personal statements. It depends on what the actual college requires. You should consider that the colleges look at more than just college essays for admission statements; they look at your grades, GPA, class standing, extracurricular activities, and school service before they admit you. I would find out what the actual requirements are and base your statement on that.
Usually
colleges have their own guidelines when it comes to college essay
for admission or personal statements. It depends on what the actual college
requires. You should consider that the colleges look at more than just college essays
for admission statements; they look at your grades, GPA, class standing,
extracurricular activities, and school service before they admit you. I would
find out what the actual requirements are and base your statement on that.
I've
heard more than one admissions representative stress, "the personal statement
is NOT an essay," but every time it seems like they're just trying to keep
you from stressing out about it.
That said, practically by definition, the personal statement is basically just
another college
application essay anyway.
Think of it this way. The common
college essay writing is basically a
personal statement, apart from they give you 5 prompts to choose from incase
you're drawing a blank and don't want to make one up yourself. On the common
college admission essay, if you choose
one of the prompts, you have to respond to the prompt. If you make up your own
prompt, it's basically a personal statement. Most colleges don't have you write both. I don't think any of the colleges
on my list that use the common
college
application essays ask for a personal statement.
This response was kind of unclear because there's no genuine and clear
difference. On the personal statement, they're asking you to give an angle of
yourself that the
college admission
essays don't provide. You should do the exact same thing on the common app
essay.
If you have to write both (
College
entrance essay and personal statement) for the same college, try writing
your common
app essay on part of
your life, and write your personal statement about you personally.
Again, there's no clear difference. You should provide an interesting take on
your life in both.
Disclaimer: Dime-Co.Com is an online information article and video article network. All articles, video articles, comments, and other features herein are for informational purposes only and are provided "as is" without warranties, representations or guarantees of any kind. The views and opinions expressed in an article, comments, links or blogs are the author's own, and not necessarily those of dime-co.com's owners. For full disclaimer, please read our TOS.