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美国院校对PS的一般标准 I. INTRODUCTION To successfully apply to the college or university of your choice requires more than a transcript, a list of your accomplishments, and a letter of recommendation from a favorite teacher. After all, your application will be reviewed with hundreds of others\ many of whom may have grades, extracurricular activities, awards and honors equal to your own or even bette匸 What will differentiate you from these hundreds of other applicants? The answer, of course, is your personal statement. An effective, compelling personal statement has the ability to communicate your unique characteristics and experiences to the admissions committee in your own words. Your persistence. Your ambition. Your commitment to others. Your sense of humor. These are qualities that doift come across in the fill-in-the-blanks portion of the application. Take the opportunity that the personal statement gives you, and use it to your best advantage? While the rest of the candidate pool may be able to write clearly and competently, the smart candidate realizes that the admissions process is, after all, a competition. To come out ahead, you must stand out from the other applicants through creative, innovative, and engaging writing comes into play. Its a demanding task. Within the narrow constraints of the applications wording, you have to: examine your personality traits and personal history and consider how to present them to a perfect stranger; review your experiences and accomplishments, determine how they are relevant to the admissions criteria, and prioritize them according to their relevance and importance; transform your list of accomplishments into a coherent, organized narrative structure; and let your own voice” come across in your essay while ensuring your tone is neither too familiar nor stiffly formal. Writing Tip 1: Strategy A Means to an End Before sitting down to write your essay, its helpful to take a moment to re-assess what you hope to achieve. Ask yourself