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Post by Anonymous User » Wed Dec 07, 2016 5:52 pm

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Re: Help Expanding on My PS?

Post by ArtistOfManliness » Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:10 pm

Meh. Not impressed by the open. Seems a little trite or something.

Also, as a first-generation couldn't this be your diversity statement or something?

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Re: Help Expanding on My PS?

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:13 pm

ArtistOfManliness wrote:....
I'm also a URM, so my diversity statement will be about that.

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Re: Help Expanding on My PS?

Post by ArtistOfManliness » Wed Dec 07, 2016 6:15 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
ArtistOfManliness wrote:....
I'm also a URM, so my diversity statement will be about that.
Can't combine them perhaps?

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Re: Help Expanding on My PS?

Post by mjb447 » Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:06 pm

The topic seems fine to me, but I agree about the opening - the spring semester discussion on resilience is fine insofar as it provides context and a framing device for your life story, but the facts from first paragraph would fit in (in some form) after the third paragraph and, to me, it's not really doing enough work as an attention grabber right now to have it in the front.

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Re: Help Expanding on My PS?

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:16 pm

mjb447 wrote:.
Thank you! I'm definitely not the most creative person, so writing my personal statement has been a struggle. I'll work on it some more. Thanks y'all!

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Re: Help Expanding on My PS?

Post by zot1 » Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:16 pm

Seems disjointed to me. Any chance you got a different PS?

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