The Personal Statement

Here are some resources for help with your personal statements:

• These are the prompts from the University of California
• The page from Purdue's OWL: The Personal Statement
• Here's some help from UC Berkeley and from UCLA
• The University of Chicago is well known for their unusual essay prompts. These can be very exciting for some students, and completely unsettling for others.
• One Hundred College Admission Essay Prompts
• A link to the Common Application