Common App and University of California Graphic Organizers
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GuidedPath © 2013 www.guidedpath.net Helping more students go to college ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Use this graphic organizer to brainstorm ideas for writing essays. Write down one word bullet points on each topic. University of California #1: Describe the world you come from- for example, your family, community, or school-and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. Common Application: Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community or family. ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Community Personal Statement Graphic Organizer Family ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Dreams/Aspirations School
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Brainstorming topics for college essays is an important first step. These graphic organizers are designed with the questions used by UCLA, UC Berkeley and all the other campuses in the University of California system. The correlating Common Application questions are included. These graphic organizers give students a way to organize thoughts and map out topics for each of their essay questions.
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Use this graphic
organizer to
brainstorm ideas
for writing essays.
Write down one
word bullet points
on each topic.
University of California #1: Describe the world you
come from- for example, your family, community, or
school-and tell us how your world has shaped your
dreams and aspirations.
Common Application: Discuss an accomplishment or
event, formal or informal that marked your transition
from childhood to adulthood within your culture,
community or family.
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Family
Community
Personal Statement Graphic Organizer
Family
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Dreams/Aspirations School
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UC #2: Tell us about a personal quality,
talent, accomplishment, contribution or
experience that is important to you. What
about this quality or accomplishment makes
you proud and how does it relate to the
person you are?
Common Application: Recount an incident
or time when you experienced failure. How
did it affect you, and what lessons did you
learn?
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Personal Qualities
Experiences Accomplishments or Contributions
Talents
Use this graphic organizer to brainstorm
ideas for the University of California &
Common Application.
TIP:
- Start with EXPERIENCES. Use these to
illustrate personal qualities, talents,
accomplishments or contributions.
- Use Experiences to generate ideas for
other prompts (UC #1 & #3).
Personal Statement Graphic Organizer
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Additional Comments-UC: “If
you wish, you may use this space to tell us anything else you want us to know about you that you have not had the opportunity to describe elsewhere in the application
Common App: Some students have
a background or story that is so
central to their identity that they
believe their application would be
incomplete without it. If this sounds
like you, please share your story.
Personal Statement Graphic Organizer
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What else should we know about YOU personally?
What else should we know about your ACADEMIC perspective?
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The Additional Comments section of
the UC application allows you a place
to add more information about
yourself.
The word limit is 550 words. Take
advantage of this opportunity to tell
something else about yourself.
If you have not written about
academics in your UC essays, write
about it in this one.
