The personal statement was one of the most daunting parts of my application process. I was lucky to start early and have a lot of guidance because I applied for the NSF GRFP before submitting my grad school application, and once I had one personal statement, it was easy to modify it for other universities.
In this post I am going to share how I structured my engineering grad school personal statement and how I addressed my rocky start in school. My overall goal in my personal statement was to show my progression from a highschool student who was interested in engineering to a qualified graduate school applicant with the potential to be a successful researcher. I broke this down into 7 steps and included some excerpts from my personal statement to show how I did this.
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