Helping Your Students Write Personal Statements: Framing the Narrative for Fellowships and Other Opportunities

Helping Your Students Write Personal Statements analyzes the components of the effective personal statement and provides examples from many successful essays by actual college students, as well as exercises for students.

Stephen Lassonde is Director of the Newman Office of Prestigious Scholarships & Fellowships at Hunter College, City University of New York. He was formerly Dean of Student Life at Harvard College, Deputy Dean of the College at Brown University, and an Assistant Dean at Yale College. Lassonde has previously published on the history of childhood and education in the United States.