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What are your short- and long-term career goals? Discuss how the graduate program will contribute to achieving these goals.

Share your academic interest and articulate how these connect to your professional objectives.

Address your motivations for pursuing graduate studies.

Explain how this degree aligns with your current life stage and career aspirations.

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What is one of your most proudest accomplishments?

Select a collegiate experience from your work, school, community or leadership involvement that showcases personal growth.

Using the STARS method below, draft key points answering each question listed in the image.

Highlight what makes you unique and valuable to the program.

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Describe a situation where you overcame adversity, exhibited leadership, learned from failure, or experienced an ethical dilemma.

Select a collegiate experience from your work, school, community or leadership involvement that showcases your resilience, problem-solving skills, and ethical awareness.

Using the STARS method below, draft key points answering each question listed in the image.

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Select one of the topics from column #3 or #4 to draft in your personal statement.

Outline the structure of your personal statement using this template:

Introduction

Column #1: Academic Interest and Career Goals

Share 1 - 2 of your academic interest

Share 1 - 2 of your career goals

Share which program you are applying for

Column #3 / #4:

Share at least 1 - 2 collegiate experience examples that directly answers the question

Share what you have learned from these experiences

Share how did these experience shape you

Share how these experiences have better prepared you for graduate school

Conclusion

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1. You will be using Padlet to outline and brainstorm your ideas. You can launch Padlet via the button found at the bottom of the page.

2. Within Padlet, you will see 5 columns including:

Column #1: the instructions for completing the assignment.

Column #2: Academic Interest and Career Goals

Column #3: Proudest Accomplishment

Column #4: Overcoming Adversity

Column #5: Personal Statement Outline

3. First, read and reflect the prompts in each column.

4. Then, answer the mini-processing questions within each column by clicking the "+" at the top of the column. Clicking the "Publish" will add a response to the column. Brainstorming is about generating ideas and making connections of how you would organize and respond to the question.

5. The final column is where you will select one of the topics from column #3 or #4 to draft in your personal statement. In this column, you will outline the structure of your paper including introduction, column #1, column topic #3 / #4, and conclusion paragraphs. Please follow the structure as shown in the example in that column.