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Make Your Personal Statement Shine Part #9

Robert Voors

The ninth important item you want to be sure to include in your personal statement is a difficulty or difficulties you’ve experienced in your life and the ways you managed to overcome this problem or issues. Again, this is about illustrating your ability to tackle challenges, to be a problem solver and most importantly to learn from what life throws your way.

Choose at least one difficulty that you have overcome and specifically what you learned from having to jump over this hurdle. It may be anything from overcoming your dyslexia through special learning techniques to dealing with the tragic loss of a parent during your teenage years.

Everyone has something in their life that is difficult to handle, so think about roadblocks you’ve run into thus far in your life and use this information to paint a picture of who you really are–using your personal statement as your canvas.

Stay tuned for the last tip on what you need to include in your personal statement to make it shine.

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