写Personal Statement的九点技巧 (转)
1．对所要申请的学校和专业是否有深入细致的了解，能做到在写自述时紧扣学校和专业的要求及特点，突出自己的申请优势。
2．自己的人生经历中有什么独特的、非同寻常的地方？在家庭生活和社会生活中有哪些人或事件影响了自己的人 生观和事业追求？这些影响有什么与众不同的地方？
3．自己最初是如何对目前所选专业感兴趣的？在其后的岁月中又是如何加深了对这一学科领域的认识？在这一领域已经取得了什么样的成绩？是什么因素使自己自信，能够在这一领域有所建树？
4．在上学期间自己从事了哪些助教、助研、社会实践、暑期工作？通过这些活动在什么方面得到了提高（比如科研能力、组织能力和领导能力等）？在步入社会后的工作中完成过什么项目，取得了哪些成就，表现出何等才干？
5．自己最终的事业目标是什么？
6．在自己多年来的考试成绩上有没有需要解释的地方？比方说大学成绩一直很优异但GRE成绩却不怎么理想；高年级时的成绩是否比低年级时的成绩有显著提高？
7．在自我奋斗的过程中是否需要克服超常的困难，如家庭生活贫困、身体残疾等？
8．自己是否具备杰出的品格，比如诚实、可靠、善良、刻苦等，而自己能否提供真凭实据来加以证明？是否具备值得一提的很好的特别的工作习惯和态度，以及禀性上的优异
9．自己具备什么样的特殊才能，如分析能力、领导才能和交流才能？为什么比别的申请者更具有在事业上成功的把握。
Personal Statement1
（literature）
Having majored in literary studies (world literature) as an undergraduate, I would now like to concentrate on English and American literature.
I am especially interested in nineteenth-century literature, women's literature, Anglo-Saxon poetry, and folklore and folk literature. My personal literary projects have involved some combination of these subjects. For the oral section of my comprehensive exams, I specialized in nineteenth century novels by and about women. The relationship between \subject for my honors essay, which examined Toni Morrison's use of classical, biblical, African, and Afro-American folk tradition in her novel. I plan to work further on this essay, treating Morrison's other novels and perhaps preparing a paper suitable for publication.
In my studies toward a doctoral degree, I hope to examine more closely the relationship between high and folk literature. My junior year and private studies of Anglo-Saxon language and literature have caused me to consider the question of where the divisions between folklore, folk literature, and high literature lie. Should I attend your school, I would like to resume my studies of Anglo-Saxon poetry, with special attention to its folk elements.
Writing poetry also figures prominently in my academic and professional goals. I have just begun submitting to the smaller journals with some success and am gradually building a working manuscript for a collection. The dominant theme of this collection relies on poems that draw from classical, biblical, and folk traditions, as well as everyday experience, in order to celebrate the process of giving and taking life, whether literal or figurative. My poetry draws from and influences my academic studies. Much of what I read and study finds a place in my creative work as subject. At the same time, I study the art of literature by taking part in the creative process, experimenting with the tools used by other authors in the past.
In terms of a career, I see myself teaching literature, writing criticism, and going into editing or publishing poetry. Doctoral studies would be valuable to
me in several ways. First, your teaching assistant ship program would provide me with the practical teaching experience I am eager to acquire. Further, earning a Ph.D. in English and American literature would advance my other two career goals by adding to my skills, both critical and creative, in working with language. Ultimately, however, I see the Ph.D. as an end in itself, as well as a professional stepping stone; I enjoy studying literature for its own sake and would like to continue my studies on the level demanded by the Ph.D. program.
Personal Statement 2
（Journalism）
It’s all about the headline. It’s about getting your point across in the most direct way you can. These personal statements are very good example of this, in just a few lines I have to get my message of why I want do a degree in Journalism across to my prospective universities. That is one of the reasons why I love to write, the challenge of putting over a complex thought or concept to a large audience of people and convey it in such a way everybody will understand it. As the great writer Hemingway once said, “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
My own personal experience of journalism started young, my dad used to write for a magazine and take me with him when he went to interview people, since then I have been fascinated with the industry. When I was 14 I was lucky enough to get a work experience placement at “News International” in Wapping. I got to work on the websites of “FiredUp.com”, “Revolver.com” and “Page3.com” as well as have a tour of the offices of “The Sun”, “News Of The World” and “The Times”, I have also recently been offered a day’s work experience at my local paper and I am currently waiting for news of work experience at the BBC.
I pride myself on being well organised and thorough in my research. I have also developed many skills such as interview techniques and being able to see things from another perspective, a skill I have acquired through Sociology and Communication Studies, analytical skills through Film Studies and Media Studies and I have learnt about analysing and collating numerical data and factual evidence in Psychology. Although I have already completed three A-Levels and two AS Levels, I have taken a year out to study AS French, Sociology and Spanish. I did this in order to improve my grades and to give me a wider choice of qualifications as my previous subjects are all very similar with their syllabus as well the fact multiple languages would be an invaluable advantage to have when working in the area of communication.
Some of my outside interests are music, politics, the Internet and reading. Music in particular is a great love of mine, I regularly attend “gigs” and concerts and have been an active member of the “Sum 41 Street Team” for over a year, this involves spreading publicity through flyers and posters to promote the band, I find it very fulfilling and enjoyable. Another one of my interests is the Internet, I contribute articles to a site dealing with issues such as “top-up fees” and other important student matters, which I enjoy greatly and is helping to improve my knowledge of university for the future. I have a part time job waitressing at a local hotel which I do a few nights a week. It gives me a sense of my own independence and responsibility; I also help my mother at the local Red Cross during half terms and holidays cooking for the elderly and have also recently volunteered to sell Poppies for Remembrance Sunday throughout my town. Another activity of mine is being my tutor group
representative for our college’s student council and regularly attend meetings to deal with concerns of the student body.
I am thoughtful, organized and handle pressure well, I love to write and it is my ambition to do so, I believe I can bring many things to the courses I have selected and in turn can get a lot out of them as well.
Personal Statement 3(Electrical Engineering)
My interest in science dates back to my years in high school, where I excelled in physics, chemistry, and math. When I was a senior, I took a first-year calculus course at a local college (such an advanced-level class was not available in high school) and earned an A. It seemed only logical that I pursue a career in electrical engineering.
When I began my undergraduate career, I had the opportunity to be exposed to the full range of engineering courses, all of which tended to reinforce and solidify my intense interest in engineering. I've also had the opportunity to study a number of subjects in the humanities and they have been both enjoyable and enlightening, providing me with a new and different perspective on the world in which we live.
In the realm of engineering, I have developed a special interest in the field of laser technology and have even been taking a graduate course in quantum electronics. Among the 25 or so students in the course, I am the sole undergraduate. Another particular interest of mine is electromagnetics, and last summer, when I was a technical assistant at a world-famous local lab, I learned about its many practical applications, especially in relation to microstrip and antenna design. Management at this lab was sufficiently impressed with my work to ask that I return when I graduate. Of course, my plans following completion of my current studies are to move directly into graduate work toward my master's in science. After I earn my master's degree, I intend to start work on my Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Later I would like to work in the area of research and development for private industry. It is in
R & D that I believe I can make the greatest contribution, utilizing my theoretical background and creativity as a scientist.
I am highly aware of the superb reputation of your school, and my conversations with several of your alumni have served to deepen my interest in attending. I know that, in addition to your excellent faculty, your computer facilities are among the best in the state. I hope you will give me the privilege of continuing my studies at your fine institution.
4. English PS:
Literature has the power to move me to tears, make me laugh, and satisfy me
intellectually. I knew studying English was the right choice for me when I realised I would not be truly happy without it as the main focus of my academic life.
Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature is a particular interest of mine. I wrote my Advanced Higher dissertation on the concept of the contrast between human transience and the eternity of nature within Keats’s Odes. These poems reflect Keats’s growing preoccupation with his own mortality as his health worsened, and analysing the different conclusions he reached on the subject of life and death in these poems was extremely absorbing. Though very different from the typical Romanticism of Keats, I also greatly admire Jane Austen’s subtle ironies and portrayal of the role of women. Particularly poignant is her darkest novel, ‘Persuasion’ which I consider to be one of her finest works; perhaps because, like Keats’s Odes, it reflects her own anxieties at the time.
I greatly enjoyed studying ‘Hamlet’ and ‘King Lear’ while at school. Comparing the two plays allowed me to examine various issues such as the nature of kingship and parent-child relationships, as well as the broader areas of revenge and tragedy. In order to maximise my comprehension of Shakespeare’s themes, I read various critical pieces on both works, such as A.C. Bradley’s analyses of the flawed characters of both Hamlet and Lear. I anticipate the prospect of further examination of literature’s perennial questions with enthusiasm.
Learning French to a high level has been very rewarding, and has sparked a
developing interest in foreign literature. I have read novels such as ‘Suite Fran?aise’ in both English and French, and found observing the process of translation that the text has undergone enthralling. Last year I chose to write a folio essay on the concept of freedom in Sartre’s ‘Huis Clos’. Besides finding his philosophical ideas and bleak portrayal of Hell thought-provoking, I found the actual literary analysis of a text in a language other than English an interesting experience. I have already had to use similar skills in reading texts in Scots dialects e.g. Lewis Grassic Gibbon‘s ‘A Scots Quair’. The study of other languages has furthered my appreciation of our own language: the intricacies and decidedly quirky nature of English captivate me.
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