Examples from the IES archive of sample student essays Example personal statement A: I have known in my heart since I was a little girl what I wanted to be when I grew up. It was not a stereotypical child’s dream such as a doctor or an astronaut; my vision was instead something that has shaped my actions and decisions throughout my life. In the last few years I have realized that my passion for conserving the environment is a natural calling that I am destined to follow. This intuitive notion
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Raina Perez 9/2/13 Period.5 Personal Statement In my high school career I had attended a total of two high schools‚ both very different and both very important in helping me see the world the way that I do today. In my first high school‚ Freedom‚ I took advantage of the performing arts and had partake in a choir as well as beginning art class. Both of those classes helped me to hold myself at a higher standard and to showcase something I had been working on for others to see. My choir
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Personal Statement Education is of great value to me and I take it very seriously. To be given the opportunity to study further is of great importance to me and I intend to go as far as I possibly can with it. Attending UCONN School of Social Work seems like the best choice for me. I was impressed by the breadth of concentrations offered‚ and I absolutely love the idea of being able to complete my degree where I attended as an Undergraduate student. By attending UCONN‚ I hope to broaden and deepen
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graduated from high school and entered the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering in China Agriculture University (CAU)‚ the leading university of this field in China. The studies of food science interested me profoundly. Having acquired much knowledge on food‚ my dream gradually turned to be a professional in the food industry and it is the life and study at the university that bring my dream close to reality. On my senior year‚ I got the postgraduate recommendation in the same college
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undergraduate degree in B usiness Administration-Finance at the University of Kentucky. My decision to follow this path‚ however‚ has its roots in my pre-teen days of selling any thing from fresh vegetables to newspapers to Christmas cards. I cultivated t his inclination in college‚ where I chose to pursue a career in information technology. The field beckoned to me with the promise of tremendous opportun ities for personal and intellectual growth--and was far more glamorous than flinging
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In my family‚ we have celebrated more baby showers than we have high school graduation parties. At last count‚ my immediate family was comprised of three siblings‚ sixteen aunts and uncles‚ and fifty-eight first cousins. I am a the first generation United States citizen‚ and the second in my immediate family born in the United States. and even though eEducation wasn’t highly emphasized in my family‚ I am first in my family to receive a Bachelor’s degree. Education . It was not something my parents
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I strongly intend to be a computer engineer. I am inspired by many successful people that had graduated in Computer Engineer at Chulalonkorn University. Witnessing those famous graduates devoting their knowledge to country and to the world has encouraged my decision that this is the right place as much as I am the right perspective student. My inspiration has become even more intensified since I worked as a trainee of Android Programming Development Section at Opendurian Company. Being a growing
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definitely be my own boss. Doing my life I have struggled with employment and finding my way but now I feel God has gave me a second chance at life and making something of myself. I have had a lot of down in my life but finding this gift of being a personal trainer have totally turned my life around in the most positive type of way that I have had in a long time. I’m proud to be in this class and a student of Vatterott. I know how it feels to wants something positive to happen in your life and I must
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Personal Ethics Paper Fernando De La Peña Llaca CMGT/530 April 11‚ 2011 Thomas Poole Personal Ethics Paper Ethics plays a big role in my life and also in my company‚ skip ethics in any situation can means a shortcut‚ a shortcut to a dead-end. Ethics is the way the morale and values prevail and using ethics in life brings big rewards. Because I am beginning a new stage in my life‚ especially in my academic life taking a master’s degree at University of Phoenix there is no difference; ethics
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at these two jobs‚ I developed skills such as sense of responsibility‚ good teamwork and communication with people and strong leadership. My main ambition for the future is to become a Chartered Accountant after I finish my degree at university. I am hoping university will provide me with an insight of the accounting world as well as offering me a wide range of choices and connections after my course. My social life involves myself going out with friends regularly playing football and also tennis
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