Avoid Getting Victimized by Random Google Personal Statement Examples

Many applicants to college, law school, graduate school, MBA programs and other institutions of higher education torpedo their chances of admission by committing one serious mistake: plagiarizing existing essays.

Bellevue CA, CA (prHWY.com) November 6, 2011 - (San Diego, CA, 11/07/11) - Personal statement essays are used by admissions committees to colleges, law schools, medical schools, graduate schools, MBA programs and other institutions of higher learning, in addition to GPA and aptitude test scores to determine which applicant gets admitted. Personal statements essays are often the applicant's only chance of establishing a personal connection with the admissions committee members. This is very important because it gives them an opportunity to show a real person, not just a compilation of academic numbers, but a real person--a person with aspirations, dreams, of past obstacles overcome, of interesting backgrounds, and of potential.


Making a personal connection

This personal connection cannot be overestimated because at the end of the day, academic institutions are looking to admit people, not numbers. It is people that would go on to turn dreams into realities and not numbers. However, there is a disconnection between the importance of personal statements and the dangers of plagiarism among applicants.


Personal statement examples as guides

As the internet has proliferated and grown, many people are using it to cut corners. More and more applicants are unfortunately using personal statement examples not as guides or tools to draw inspiration from, but to just copy and paste. Google can easily be used to track down plagiarists of personal statement examples. Just taking one snippet of text, you could easily see if it was lifted off the internet.

"Our free resource helps students identify good personal statement examples and separate them from bad samples. This helps them compile a pool of resources, which they can then draw inspiration from in organizing their own original essay," said Ernesto Linkstrom, media relations officer for examplespersonalstatements.com, the internet's free leading source of personal statement examples, essay writing guides and other free resources. According to Linkstrom, "There is a big difference between drawing inspiration from existing work and straight out stealing it." The proper way to use personal statement examples is to categorize them and compare good essays from bad essays, and to draw quality guidelines and look at differing approaches and weigh their value in light of your own personal biographical information. From there, keep refining your original essay until you have maximized its effectiveness. The free resource is located at http://www.examplespersonalstatements.com/essay-writing-tips/identifying-good-personal-statements-examples-from-bad-samples/

"With the right modelling and an eye towards drawing inspiration from the principles that made a particular essay great, applicants go a long way in crafting a winning personal statement," said Linkstrom.

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