Different names for PS: PS is personal.
Abbreviations of sentences are translated into personal sentences, but the names of personal sentences may be different in different schools. The most common ones are: personal statements and statements.
Purpose, academic purpose statement, goal statement, goal statement
Intention, letter of intent, academic goals ... In fact, these are what we often call PS.
2. What should a personal statement include?
What should PS include?
Although each school has similar requirements for PS, each school has different requirements for the content of PS, depending on the subject of the school. What we are talking about now is a typical PS with comprehensive requirements. Usually, if a school does not require other essay, but only requires the applicant to write a PS, it will require the applicant to write such a PS. The following lists the typical requirements of several projects for PS, and then we extract some keywords of PS content:
Based on the requirements of the above typical projects for PS, we can draw a conclusion that PS should include the following elements:
1. Why did you choose this major? Is this major the most suitable for you to achieve your career goals in advance? )
2. What are your long-term and short-term career goals (after graduate school)?
3. How did your past study, work and life experience shape you and set this career goal?
4. What efforts have you made to achieve this goal and what achievements have you achieved (what knowledge and skills have you learned)?
5. Why did you choose this project? Talk about how to use all the resources of this project to achieve your career goals.
A PS containing the above elements does not mean to answer the above questions one by one. After all, PS is an article and an organic whole. The effect we pursue should be: After reading our PS, the Admissions Committee has got the answers to the above questions. (or there is no need to ask the answer to the above question)
3. What is your career ambition?
Read and analyze several elements of PS carefully, and you will find that they all contain one element: career goals. The understanding of career goals is that, in fact, we think it is difficult for a student without industry experience to determine his future career goals. After all, most of you can't accurately understand that level of detail. Furthermore, even if the applicant's career goal is clear: to become an auditor in the four major accounting firms after graduation, the ultimate goal is to become the CEO of a listed company.
Or another civil engineering student's goal: to become an assistant structural designer in a large architectural design unit after graduation, and then set up his own architectural design studio. Assuming that these two goals are reasonable, in fact, we can't feel how persistent the applicant is in the end. Maybe we changed our career goals the next day.
Therefore, we believe that when the school asks the applicant's career goals, it is not simply to know which companies the applicant will go to, what position he will work in, and whether he will start his own company in the longer term. Maybe it's called dedication. The school wants to know what the applicant wants to change after doing something. What mystery do you want to explore? What impact do you want to have? In what way do you think the candidate has achieved a better self? ......
For example, a civil engineering student hopes to design a low-cost and solid house in the future and has been working hard for it; Physics students want to explore how the universe is formed and indulge in it; Students majoring in finance hope to help enterprises go public and get better financing channels; Students studying mathematics may want to explore the mystery of numbers, and students studying medicine want to overcome the difficulties of cancer ... What the applicant wants to do should be something that we can only feel its value and significance, otherwise the Admissions Committee will not feel it. This involves a meaningful professional problem. But doesn't that just answer the question why you chose this major?
For this question, it is very important to suggest that students do an industry survey to find out what ways companies and institutions can help you realize your career aspirations. In fact, Imperial College London in London once refused to trust an applicant because he didn't do enough industry research. Students should design reasonable long-term and short-term career goals according to their career aspirations.
And this goal, as long as it is to realize your career ambition, should be reasonable. For example, if you want to help enterprises go public in the future, so that enterprises can get better financing channels, you can work in the investment banking department of securities companies after graduation to help enterprises go public. You can also set up a listing consulting company to help customers solve legal, accounting, financial and other difficulties encountered in listing. It is a very important stage if you want to conquer cancer, study PhD, and then go to cancer research institute or continue to do scientific research in colleges and universities. ......
4. What is a good personal statement?
What does a good PS look like:
A good PS should first have a clear theme and leave a deep impression on people. Let the admissions committee feel that the applicant is pursuing a valuable and meaningful career ambition. And let the Admissions Committee know that the applicant's career ambition is influenced by some experiences, and its formation is reasonable. Then, after further exploration, the applicant gradually established his unshakable ambition to pursue his career. In order to realize his career ambition, the applicant has made enough efforts and achieved good results, which shows that he is very likely to realize this ambition in the future, and he wants to realize this ambition, and the applied project does have resources to help him.
After reading it, people feel that the applicant is extremely enthusiastic and persistent about his career ambition, and that this student is the only person to do this job. Therefore, PS is a whole, focusing on its career aspirations, and every experience is related to career aspirations.
In addition, after reading the good PS, the Admissions Committee should also know that the applicant is qualified to apply for the program. Both soft and hard meet the requirements of the school. We should explain those colleagues who form, deepen and pursue customers' career aspirations. You have also grown up in this process, both in knowledge and soft ability.
Third, a good PS should be readable. Even if it is not lifelike, it should be logical and clear-headed. Remind everyone again that the Admissions Committee is very hard and it is boring to read so many articles every day. Of course, I hope to read lively and interesting articles with feelings.
Finally, PS should pay attention to the substance of the content rather than the form. There is no need to spend too much time on the usage of each word, racking your brains for a dramatic beginning, weighing words for a conjunction, and perfecting the content and logic if you have time. Bobby is not taking a writing class, but clear logic and no grammatical spelling mistakes are the basic requirements.
5. Give PS soul professional ambition.
Career ambition is the soul and main line of PS, so before writing PS, it is the first job to determine your career ambition. A major can help a person realize many ambitions. For example, learning public policies can help small and medium-sized enterprises to obtain loans, eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor, and establish a perfect universal medical insurance system. Different majors can actually help a person achieve the same career aspirations. For example, to eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor, we can learn not only public policy, but also development economics. Which ambition suits you better? It depends on your past experience.
Students are advised to list all their relevant experiences, including family background, professional studies, auditing courses, online courses, academic research, academic conferences, work/internship experiences, extracurricular activities, exchange experiences, volunteer experiences, and even travel experiences, personal interests, personal special experiences and so on. Then consider your career ambition, and try to connect these experiences as much as possible: which experiences have influenced your career ambition, which experiences have made you more certain about this ambition, and which experiences are the results of your efforts after you have determined your ambition. ......
Take a student as an example. He applied for a major related to finance. First, he explained that his father's coal enterprises could not get loans because of insufficient mortgage assets. Later, he witnessed that many small and medium-sized enterprises could not get bank loans, which led to the break of the capital chain, and he was determined to solve the loan problem of small and medium-sized enterprises in China. After that, the student's relevant work experience reflects her efforts to realize her career ambition. Although we have made some achievements, we will also find our own shortcomings, and our ideas can't be adopted well. So I decided to study abroad, continue my study in this field, seek better help and get a good solution.
Although many students' experiences will be fragmentary, you may even feel unable to relate them to a career ambition. This is about students' intelligence. One thing can be written from many angles, and processing is very important.