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Name ____________________________________ Date _______________ Advisor ____________________

Five-Paragraph Personal Statement Worksheet

1. My name is _________________________________________________________.

2. I am in the _______________ grade at Konawaena High School.

3. I will be graduating from high school in _____________________________ (month/year).

4. The purpose of this personal statement is _____________________________________________________.

(Obtain a specific job or gain acceptance into a specific college)

5. Currently I am interested in pursuing ________________________________________________________

(degree/college/occupation/career) because ___________________________________________________.

6. Courses I have taken to help me to achieve this goal are

______________________________________________________________________________________.

7. I have gained skills such as ________________________________________________________________

through my experience as _________________________________________________________________.

8. Additionally, I have been involved in school and community activities such as

______________________________________________________________________________________.

Through my participation in these activities I have learned

______________________________________________________________________________________.

9. My work and volunteer experience include

______________________________________________________________________________________.

What I have learned most from these experiences are

______________________________________________________________________________________.

10. In my free time, I enjoy ___________________________________________________________________.

11. My strengths are ________________________________________________________________________.

12. Areas I will need to work to improve are _____________________________________________________.

13. My friends would describe me as being ______________________________________________________

because _______________________________________________________________________________.

14. One influential person in my life is __________________________________________________________

because _______________________________________________________________________________.

15. I have overcome challenges in my life such as _________________________________________________.

This event has helped me to _______________________________________________________________.

16. What separates me from my peers is ________________________________________________________.

17. My career goal is to _________________________________________. In order to achieve this career goal,

I have come up with the following short term goals:

______________________________________________________________________________

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