<p>My friend said that you should only write about doing good things to the US in personal statement. If you write about improving other countries, then Berkeley will not like it and will deny your admission</p>
<p>what do u think?
What if a person is international student?
what if a person want to return to his country and do good things there?</p>
<p>So my friend who is an international student bull ***** about doing good things to America…It just didnt sound right to me.</p>
<p>lol, I thought I had heard all the rumors out there but then the lamest of all surfaces on CC.</p>
<p>fail</p>
<p>Sure that rumor is true. Public schools don’t like education stealers!! The government pays to educate you! You must benefit us!!! </p>
<p>They took arrr juuuhhbs!!!</p>
<p>Your mind is property of the US government.</p>
<p>Uh yeah…no. I didn’t even mention the US in my essays. Just talked about myself. And how awesome I am.</p>
<p>:B</p>
<p>so is it true or not…</p>
<p>You guys forgot to factor in the admission staff. It depends on who’s reading your statement. What’s true before isn’t true today</p>
<p>LoS - remember ur promise?
can i read ur essay now?</p>
<p>You’ve got to be kidding me.</p>
<p>omg you remembered? uh, i didn’t get accepted to ucb. lol</p>
<p>i wrote about volunteering in africa, but i got in. so i guess that kind of stops your theory.</p>
<p>y u lied!!!</p>
<p>xleper - u wrote that ur gonna do it or u have already done it?</p>
<p>i have already done it and i wrote about how i look forward to doing it again.</p>
<p>it was also painfully personal. i wrote about what it took for me to get to this stage of life and what inspired me to go to africa… haha, some stuff that my own family doesn’t know. those UC admission officers got an eyefull of my life.</p>
<p>well thats different then</p>
<p>don’t forget “currently doing it”. We want to be as meticulous as we can here…</p>
<p>well i suppose that makes a difference. but i think this theory is a little silly. why would any school not want a student who is currently trying to do humanitarian work? just doesn’t make sense to me.</p>
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<p>Naval Academy?</p>
<p>I gave some examples of conflicts around the world and how they have been affected me. Then, finished with a sentence saying that I want to study hard in UC Berkeley so I can prevent it.</p>
<p>Just say you are committed to study, and want to benefit the society. Basically that’s what they are looking for.</p>
<p>oorah87//
FYI, international students pay full tuition by themselves. Their tuitions are similar to a private school’s. To be precise, it’s the state government paying for the education not the federal government. That’s why out-of-state residents pay as much tuition as international students.</p>
<p>lol. what makes you say that? i guess the military academies will expect you to… cease (temporarily?) your humanitarian work while you attend their school.</p>
<p>I think the key idea is “committing to studies”</p>