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Get into Top Colleges and Universities
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Get into Top Colleges and Universities

Writing your Personal Statement
Highest Rated
Created byIkee Gardner
Last updated 12/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Know what colleges and universities are looking for in a Personal Statement/Personal Essay
  • Learn how to research college rankings
  • Outline your Personal Statement/Personal Essay
  • Write your Personal Statement and submit to colleges

Course content

2 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 4m total length

  • Introduction4:04

    Welcome to the class!  In this Introduction, you'll learn about the Personal Statement requirement for admission to higher education programs (undergraduate, Master's, Ph.D., J.D., and MBA). 

  • What You'll Get out of this Course4:12

    In this video, we'll discuss the simple 5 step method for writing your Personal Statement, and what you will get out of this course.

  • Recipe for your Personal Statement5:35

    In this video, you'll learn the "recipe" for your Personal Statement/Personal Essay - as simple as baking apple pie.

  • The Life-Changing Effects of an Acceptance Letter3:25

    An admissions offer from a top college or university can be life changing - let's learn how to maximize your chances of admission to top schools.

Requirements

  • No prerequisites needed. You'll learn about the undergraduate and graduate application processes in this class.

Description

In this course, you'll learn to write a Personal Statement that "WOWs" Admissions Officers and maximizes your chance of admission. The Personal Statement is required for admission to most undergraduate, graduate, law, and MBA programs.  You'll learn a proven method of writing your Personal Statement, including:

  • What Admissions Officers are looking for

  • What pitfalls to avoid

  • What traits and qualities Admissions Officers want to see in applicants

  • What types of experiences and accomplishments to write about

  • The blueprint for writing a compelling Personal Statement

  • A logical, clear way to organize your Personal Statement - paragraph by paragraph

  • How to research a college or university - its rankings, programs, and offerings

  • How to decide upon the best topic for your Personal Statement

  • How to write a persuasive, powerful Personal Statement - in less than one hour!

Taught by an Admissions Coach with 4+ years of experience helping students get into top colleges, Master's, Ph.D., J.D., MBA, and LLM programs, this course shares with you all the secrets to writing a Personal Statement which gets noticed by admissions officers.  The instructor of this course is a Harvard-admitted, Yale-admitted, Duke University Merit Scholar with expertise in advising students of all levels to maximize their chance of admission to highly competitive schools. 

My passion is helping students get accepted to the next step - whether it's a college degree, a Master's degree, a J.D., an MBA degree or a doctoral degree. I've helped over 50 applicants successfully get accepted to top schools. When I'm not working with coaching clients, I’m a practicing business lawyer.

I graduated from Duke University with a double major in English (Bachelor of Arts) and Economics (Bachelor of Science), cum laude, on a full merit scholarship, and earned my Juris Doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of Law, on another merit scholarship. I've helped over 50 applicants successfully get accepted.

​Let's get started so you can maximize your chances of getting into your top choice school!



Who this course is for:

  • Students applying to college, Master's, or Ph.D. programs who are struggling to write their Personal Statement/Personal Essay.
  • Parents looking to help their students apply to college, Master's, or Ph.D. programs

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