Mistakes Admission Essays Samples For Students

Personal Statement

1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
When I was a child, I was young, aggressive and rebellious; thinking back on it, it was likely a product of my parentage, which was never the most loving and accommodating of relationships. I did not work very hard in school in my younger days, missing the change to get enrolled in a prestigious high school by doing poorly in my third grade of junior high; ...

I could say it was lack of maturity. Or I could say that I was distracted and not motivated to learn when there were many other possibilities of spending my time as a student. The point is that I preferred playing video games, partying, sleeping, spending time with friends, or engaging in any other non-educational activity rather than study. I thought I was being lucky enough to enter Indiana Bloomington University and that luck will hold me till the rest of my studies without putting real effort in it. But as it turned out, I was not that lucky. In ...

After the university entrance exam, in 2006, I was working in a medical company as a salesperson for the sales division, for about three months. Although I had not studied business before, this became both the beginning of my interest on the subject and the entrance on the business world.
The following year, I came up with a plan in which I could sell the gains I had acquired from online gaming to somebody who needed it. After 2 days, I decided to get outside feedback; so, I searched for people who had at least one month experience in online gaming. ...