Do colleges like "sob stories"?

marvin100
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 03:05:28 +0000

A personal statement can tell stories like that, but it will be a failure if it turns out to be about that or about your dad. It has to be about who you are–it’s a personal statement, after all. @happy1 is also correct that if its abiding message is negative it’s unlikely to be successful–you’ll have to pull some positive out of it for it to work at all.