Description
Transfer personal statement
All applicants must write a personal statement and submit it with the transfer application for admission. The personal statement should be a comprehensive narrative essay outlining significant aspects of your academic and personal history, particularly those that provide context for your academic achievements and educational choices. Quality of writing and depth of content contribute toward a meaningful and relevant personal statement.
You should address the following topics in your personal statement. Within each subtopic, such as Academic History, write only about what is meaningful to your life and experience. Do not feel compelled to address each and every question.
Required elements
Academic History
Tell us about your college career to date, describing your performance, educational path and choices.
Explain any situations that may have had a significant positive or negative impact on your academic progress or curricular choices. If you transferred multiple times, had a significant break in your education or changed career paths, explain.
What are the specific reasons you wish to leave your most recent college/university or program of study?
Your major & career goals
Tell us about your intended major and career aspirations.
Explain your plans to prepare for the major. What prerequisite courses do you expect to complete before transferring? What led you to choose this major? If you are still undecided, why? What type of career are you most likely to pursue after finishing your education?
How will the UW help you attain your academic, career and personal goals?
If you selected a competitive major, you have the option of selecting a second-choice major in the event you are not admitted to your first-choice major. Please address major or career goals for your second-choice major, if applicable.
Cultural Understanding
Our families and communities often define us and our individual worlds. Community might refer to your cultural group, extended family, religious group, neighborhood or school, sports team or club, co-workers, etc. Describe the world you come from and how you, as a product of it, might add to the diversity of the University of Washington.
Optional elements (include if applicable)
Educational challenges/personal hardships
Describe any personal or imposed challenges or hardships you have overcome in pursuing your education. For example: serious illness; disability; first generation in your family to attend college; significant financial hardship or responsibilities associated with balancing work, family and school.
Community or volunteer service
Describe your community or volunteer service, including leadership, awards or increased levels of responsibility.
Experiential learning
Describe your involvement in research, artistic endeavors and work (paid or volunteer) as it has contributed to your academic, career or personal goals.
Additional comments
Do you have a compelling academic or personal need to attend the Seattle campus of the UW at this time? Is there anything else you would like us to know?
Format
Content, as well as form, spelling, grammar and punctuation, will be considered. Suggested length is 750-1000 words.
Online application: You should write your statement first in a word processing program (such as Word) or a text editor, and then copy/paste it into the text box provided on the application. All line breaks remain. However, some formatting maybe be lost, such as bold, italics and underlines. This will not affect the evaluation of your application.
PDF application (spring applicants only): Type or write your statement on 8.5’’ x 11’’ white paper. Double-space your lines, and use only one side of each sheet. Print your name, the words “Personal Statement” and the date at the top of each page, and attach the pages to your application.
Tips
Tell us who you are
Share those aspects of your life that are not apparent from your transcripts. In providing the context for your academic achievements and choices, describe your passions and commitments, your goals, a personal challenge faced, a hardship overcome or the cultural awareness you’ve gained. Tell us your story. Be concise, but tell the whole story.
Be specific
Personal statements too often include sentences such as “I’ve always wanted to be a Husky” or “My whole family attended the UW.” Although this may be important to you personally, such reasons are not particularly valuable to the Admissions staff because they do not tell us anything distinctive about your experiences and ultimate goals.
Write like a college student
Your personal statement should reflect the experience and maturity of someone who has already attended college. It should reflect your understanding of the components of an undergraduate education, such as general education and the major. We want to read how, specifically, your academic and personal experiences fit into your academic, career and personal goals.
Keep in mind
We want to know about your intended major and career aspirations, and we want to know your plan to get there.
You have the option of selecting a second-choice major. If you do, be sure to address it in your personal statement.
The UW strives to create a community of students richly diverse in cultural backgrounds, experiences, values and viewpoints.
My personal information and additional info. (my essay for other school)
Having interests in computers, I once pursued becoming a professional gamer but had to forgo the dream due to my wrist injury. After the recovery, my passion for gaming had shifted to the fundamental system behind computer software. Reading a computer science textbook sprung from curiosity, I was mesmerized by how a few lines of cryptic words could direct complex computer programs. After months of exploring the fields, I was drawn to the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how a computer could mimic the learning ability which only humans were believed to possess. Based on this enthusiasm, I challenged myself to take courses going beyond the conventional algorithm study but not guaranteeing good grades. It took time and effort, but retaking the classes I could not completely understand helped me master course materials and practice how to teach myself.
By studying computer science at the (school), I aim to delve into up-to-date AI technology and the data collecting mechanism. Based on the motto “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire,” I will light my passion in programming languages to figure out strategies to solve real-life problems in this computational age. Furthermore, I hope to hone my skills and knowledge for AI programming to benefit human beings and mother earth.
Well-organized computer science curriculum and resourceful learning experience offered at the (school) will assist me in taking the first step of becoming an AI software developer. I hope to participate in Undergraduate Research in Artificial Intelligence to engage in hands-on research experience with mentors and gain broader perspectives about AI science and its applications. Setting a goal of working for a major AI research institute, I will construct extensive knowledge in the computer system and develop the ability for critical thinking and problem-solving.
I have experience of a part-time job such as Samsung C&T Corp. (1 month), Ministop Korea (1year), Samsonite staff for a year.
Important part of my info.
- once pursued a path of becoming a professional gamer, but I had no choice but to forgo the dream due to the wrist injury.
- I want to be an AI software developer
- I retook some courses in college and attended the honors program.
- I was interested in computer science since I was a high school student and I created a computer science club.
If you have any further questions when you write let me know.
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