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Applying to the Foster School of Business 
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Be sure to read the questions carefully so you respond to the admission committee’s requests. Also, remember that you don’t need to write on all the topics, only the ones important to your situation.
Although tutors can’t tell you what to write about your experiences and goals, they can tell you if you are communicating your story effectively. A tutor can give you feedback on a draft, but will not edit or proofread the statement.
These sites give tips on writing personal statements:
To improve your writing skills, you can ask a tutor for sample topics, then write drafts, and bring the drafts in for review. A tutor will look for your writing strengths and weaknesses and suggest areas to work on as you prepare for the exam.
As you examine the two tasks – the position task and persuasive task – a tutor can help you examine the formats more closely. The following sites on writing thesis statements and developing argument and evidence provide good information for structuring the position task.
The position task requires writing much like that you may have done in a freshman composition course. In contrast, the persuasive task puts you in an imaginary real life setting and requires writing like that you would do in the professional world.