An admission in college depends on various factors like the student score, available seats in college, personal statement and the overall percentage of the student. A personal statement is the first impression of the student with concern to the admission in colleges. It is more of like the application to the admission officers in college for your admission. It is your chance to state your achievements and qualifications in a pleasing manner. 

You certainly need time and calm mind to write the personal statement as this is the important first step towards your education and career ahead. You need to pay much attention to this statement as this is one of the deciding factors for admission. 

The personal statement is much different from the usual forms which have “fill in the blank” questions. Therefore, it should be carefully written, we bring the following steps to write an appealing personal statement: 

Show Diversity: - College means that there will be many students with a wide range of backgrounds. You need to write about the things that have helped you grow as a person. It should be written in such a way that it very much differentiates you from other applicants. While you need to mention the scores and educational qualifications, it is also important to mention your ambition and plans for the next 5 to 10 years. 

Also, research about the college in which you are about to apply for the admission. This will assist in writing the reason and your seriousness in getting the admission in the college of your choice. It would be good if you could describe in brief about the circumstances where you came out with flying colours. But at the same time, you need to be sure that you are not trying to gain any sympathy from admission officers.  It should have your personal history, family introduction, your educational course, your interest and your self-growth. 

A good personal statement is nothing but an overview of personality - make it strong and attractive. 

Be Yourself: - You need to be careful in writing the personal statement; do not exaggerate things about yourself. Remain yourself and be honest about informing the achievements and learnings. The Personal statement should not include all those things that the admission officers want to hear but they would be interested in your true talents and interests. Nothing beats than being truthful to yourself. 

There is no need to create the false image of yourself, as it will land you into the critical situation. You don’t need to be the jack of all trades.

It’s awesome if you are the master only one thing. It’s perfectly all right if you don’t know certain things. Don’t mention any of false statement about yourself as truth will come out sooner or later and your reputation goes at the stake.  The trick here is that you don’t read any other personal statement before writing your personal statement. This is avoided as it may give you the false idea. 

You may read another personal statement once you are confident that you have written the wonderful personal statements. 

Tell a story: - you don’t need to write the fabricated story about yourself. It is just the step to make yourself differentiate from other applicants. You may write the story about how your motivation came from your favourite movie and it changed your life. Make yourself memorable by telling a story in a creative way. The difficult moments of your life, your self-growth and your strength areas will enhance the personal statement when put a creative way. 

A Personal statement that consists only of numbers or grades is too mind-numbing to read. 

The reader’s attention is must in getting the admission. Bring your creativity out to sell yourself. 

Telling the story in personal statement means you mention creatively about your way of dealing with the tough situations, the things that inspire you and how do you keep yourself motivated. 

Brainstorming topics: - This is the hardest part of writing the personal statement but considers half work done, if you have carefully chosen the topic. You should do the self-analysis regarding what is important to you, who has motivated you in your journey of life and the most interesting thing about yourself. You must choose the topic that is a meaningful and original topic. 

You should choose the topic in which you are passionate. This will create the more interesting personal statement as you will mention about your passion. 

Admission officers would be interested to investigate the glimpse of your life along with scores and educational qualifications. You need to sell yourself so concentrate on your strengths only and mention them elegantly. 

The strengths that you mention should not be overhyped but also not underestimated. It is best to avoid mentioning your weakness in your personal statement. 

Don’t Procrastinate: - A good personal statement requires the writing it again and again. You need to start preparing it early. There will be many drafts before the final personal statement that is submitted for the college statement. There is no time for procrastination in terms of your education and career. There will also be the boost in your confidence when starting much before the final date of submitting the personal statement. 

Sometimes the great personal statement requires more than a month time. You need to be regular with a personal statement.

Since this crucial part of your admission, it is best that you give it time. 

Even if you think that you have written the final personal statement, wait and read it after 2 days – there will be certain changes required to it. 

Writing Style: - The way of you write the personal statement is also equivalent important than just telling them about yourself. Bring out the unique and amazing way to tell about yourself instead of using the typical statements like I have done this or etc. Also, remember that the first few sentences of the personal statement should capture the reader's interest or else they might not be interested in reading further. 

Always remember the golden rule that the way of writing is the strongest way to win the reader’s heart. You also need to be careful about choosing your words and expressions, for example, it would be good to use “accomplish” instead of “do” and so on. 

The biggest mistake a student can do is to submit the first draft itself. The personal statement needs to be re-written many times to gain perfection. 

Proofread: - Once you feel that you have written the final personal statement, ask someone in your closed circle to proofread it. It should be free of grammatical errors and other slightest mistakes that might happen while writing. The best version of the personal statement is created when you get more and more feedback from near ones. Feedbacks should be welcomed with an open mind and have trust that you near ones will only tell the best of you. 

Another trick is to read it aloud to the family as when you read aloud, you will also come to know about your mistakes if any. 

Reading aloud has helped many people and many famous writers too follow this. This also helps in creating the consistency between paragraphs. But stop reading your personal statement once you have submitted in the college. 

This is the last but the most important step of your personal statement as it should not include any errors. 

The personal statement gives admission officers an overview of the student like the personality of the student, the communication style, what motivates the student and how he follows the direction. Though the amazing personal statement is not the definite way to get the admission in college it will definitely create the positive impact on the admission officers.  

The key to writing the successful personal statement is to read it from the admission officer’s point of view. Read it as if you are the admission officer and need to decide whether or not this particular personal statement looks interesting to you or not. Also, look into the fact that the personal statement is neither too lengthy nor too short. 

The lengthy personal statement seems overhyped and the reader might also lose interest. The too short personal statement will give the impression of a low personality. The ideal length of the personal statement is from 500 to 600 words. It is not necessary to brag about how well you've performed without even a hard work. 

There is no place for being negative about yourself in the personal statement and also there is no place writing the fabricated achievements of yourself. A wonderful personal statement needs only a few rules to be followed and the careful look into yourself. 

It is tough to get through the college admission, but a strong planning and thorough preparation can get you the desired success. Relax and good luck for the college admissions.