Graduate & Adult Bachelor's Admissions

Personal Statement for Education Master's and C.A.G.S. Programs

Your written personal statement should be 600 - 900 words in length. Please use narrative form and address the following questions:

  1. In reflecting upon your personal and professional history, what forces have influenced your professional growth and contributed to your decision to seek admission to this Lesley University program?
  2. What are your long-term professional goals (ie. new directions, opportunities, interests, skills, professional renewal, and/or work advancement), and how does this Lesley University program help you to meet them?
  3. Is there any other information you think would help the Admissions Committee to understand you better (ie special interests, publications, academic achievements, supervisors' references, unusual career path, awards and/or honors, special accomplishments, leadership abilities)?
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