
Briana D. Williams
- Dec 8, 2018
Your Personal Statement Can Make or Break Your Application. Here are Applicants' Most Common Mis
Writing a personal statement is difficult. In my experience, this is mainly because applicants are invited to write about anything. Add that open-ended instruction with the stress of your dream school being on the line-- and even the most talented story-tellers get lost in dry content and are unable to avoid the universal "fall back" approach: to repeat everything, including the unhelpful highlights, on their resume. Their inability to distinguish themselves as an invaluable