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Anyone willing to critique my Personal Statement?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:25 am
by DeterminedToOvercome
Sorry for the repost!
Re: Anyone willing to critique my Personal Statement?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:47 am
by B90
Only because I like your screen name, I will edit it tomorrow. It is, however, quite long. Are you applying to Berkeley?
Re: Anyone willing to critique my Personal Statement?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 12:54 am
by DeterminedToOvercome
I am long winded so to speak. I do plan on reducing its length especially after much editing.
Re: Anyone willing to critique my Personal Statement?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:07 pm
by B90
As promised, I will give your PS an edit. I noticed that you started a duplicate thread. I believe that is against tls rules. I would ask the mods to lock delete/one.
I would have gotten to your PS sooner, but I saw your second thread and my post wasn't in it. I didn't realize you were the same person I agreed to help yesterday.
One thing that I will mention: there are words or phrases in each paragraph that are redundant. Many sentences could be combined. There is also a fair amount of awkward wording.
That said, you have started the most difficult part; you managed to get something down on the page.
I will get my edits to you as soon as I can tomorrow.
Re: Anyone willing to critique my Personal Statement?
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:46 pm
by DeterminedToOvercome
I decided to start fresh because it just didn't flow well enough when I was writing it. I am willing to send you my new updated PS via pm.
I feel more confident about what I wanted to say and how to get my message across to the reader.