UC Personal Statement Prompt 1 help with ideas

<p>so I’m planning to write about how my family’s healthy lifestyle has changed me both physically and mentally and associate that with how I plan to pursue a career in health sciences so that I can do what my parents have done for me.</p>

<p>How can I show how was it important rather than to simply tell it?</p>

<p>Did you have an ‘aha’ moment? Was there ever any tension or disagreement?</p>

<p>When you say ‘changed you’, do you mean that there was a before and after? confusing, if there is a healthy lifestyle all along I wonder how that can work?</p>

<p>I think that a lifestyle you were raised with and how it affected you and your outlook on life very much answers the prompt and that if you became a ‘believer’ in this way of living so much that it has influenced your ambitions then that is one of the times that talking about a potential major would fit.</p>

<p>No one can tell you how to structure your essay. You have to think of the points you want to make and give some examples to support what you are telling. If you are just reporting something that ‘happened to you’, that’s not all that compelling is it? Are you going to say you were fed roughage twice a day and so pooped regularly as a baby and now you are inspired to become a proctologist? Or is there some connections that you can make for the reader? What part did you play in this and how did appreciation come about? Can you analyze your situation well or compare to others? What makes you so inspired? How did that come about?</p>

<p>Provide a story how this healthy lifestyle has impacted you significantly and illustrate the impact by giving examples of “what happened to you” afterwards.</p>